Biometrics in the era of COVID-19: challenges and opportunities

M Gomez-Barrero, P Drozdowski… - … on Technology and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Since early 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has had a considerable impact on many aspects
of daily life. A range of different measures have been implemented worldwide to reduce the …

A survey on masked facial detection methods and datasets for fighting against COVID-19

B Wang, J Zheng, CLP Chen - IEEE Transactions on Artificial …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) continues to pose a great challenge to the world
since its outbreak. To fight against the disease, a series of artificial intelligence (AI) …

A real-time cnn-based lightweight mobile masked face recognition system

B Kocacinar, B Tas, FP Akbulut, C Catal… - Ieee Access, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Due to the global spread of the Covid-19 virus and its variants, new needs and problems
have emerged during the pandemic that deeply affects our lives. Wearing masks as the most …

PLFace: Progressive learning for face recognition with mask bias

B Huang, Z Wang, G Wang, K Jiang, Z Han, T Lu… - Pattern Recognition, 2023 - Elsevier
The outbreak of the COVID-19 coronavirus epidemic has promoted the development of
masked face recognition (MFR). Nevertheless, the performance of regular face recognition is …

Webface260M: A benchmark for million-scale deep face recognition

Z Zhu, G Huang, J Deng, Y Ye, J Huang… - … on Pattern Analysis …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Face benchmarks empower the research community to train and evaluate high-performance
face recognition systems. In this paper, we contribute a new million-scale recognition …

Focusface: Multi-task contrastive learning for masked face recognition

PC Neto, F Boutros, JR Pinto, N Damer… - 2021 16th IEEE …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
SARS-CoV-2 has presented direct and indirect challenges to the scientific community. One
of the most prominent indirect challenges advents from the mandatory use of face masks in a …

Mask-invariant face recognition through template-level knowledge distillation

M Huber, F Boutros, F Kirchbuchner… - 2021 16th IEEE …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The emergence of the global COVID-19 pandemic poses new challenges for biometrics. Not
only are contactless biometric identification options becoming more important, but face …

A quality aware sample-to-sample comparison for face recognition

MSE Saadabadi, SR Malakshan… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Currently available face datasets mainly consist of a large number of high-quality and a
small number of low-quality samples. As a result, a Face Recognition (FR) network fails to …

Efar 2023: Efficient face recognition competition

JN Kolf, F Boutros, J Elliesen… - … Joint Conference on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents the summary of the Efficient Face Recognition Competition (EFaR) held
at the 2023 International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB 2023). The competition …

Unconstrained face mask and face-hand interaction datasets: building a computer vision system to help prevent the transmission of COVID-19

FI Eyiokur, HK Ekenel, A Waibel - Signal, Image and Video Processing, 2023 - Springer
Health organizations advise social distancing, wearing face mask, and avoiding touching
face to prevent the spread of coronavirus. Based on these protective measures, we …