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 computer vision based human analysis in the COVID-19 era

FI Eyiokur, A Kantarcı, ME Erakın, N Damer… - Image and Vision …, 2023 - Elsevier
The emergence of COVID-19 has had a global and profound impact, not only on society as a
whole, but also on the lives of individuals. Various prevention measures were introduced …

Privacy-friendly synthetic data for the development of face morphing attack detectors

N Damer, CAF López, M Fang… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - openaccess.thecvf.com
The main question this work aims at answering is:" can morphing attack detection (MAD)
solutions be successfully developed based on synthetic data?". Towards that, this work …

Synthaspoof: Developing face presentation attack detection based on privacy-friendly synthetic data

M Fang, M Huber, N Damer - Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Recently, significant progress has been made in face presentation attack detection (PAD),
which aims to secure face recognition systems against presentation attacks, owing to the …

Troubleshooting ethnic quality bias with curriculum domain adaptation for face image quality assessment

FZ Ou, B Chen, C Li, S Wang… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Abstract Face Image Quality Assessment (FIQA) lays the foundation for ensuring the stability
and accuracy of face recognition systems. However, existing FIQA methods mainly formulate …

Reconstruct face from features based on genetic algorithm using GAN generator as a distribution constraint

X Dong, Z Miao, L Ma, J Shen, Z Jin, Z Guo… - Computers & …, 2023 - Elsevier
Face recognition based on deep convolutional neural networks (CNN) shows superior
accuracy performance attributed to the high discriminative features extracted. Yet, the …

SYN-MAD 2022: Competition on face morphing attack detection based on privacy-aware synthetic training data

M Huber, F Boutros, AT Luu, K Raja… - … Joint Conference on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a summary of the Competition on Face Morphing Attack Detection
Based on Privacy-aware Synthetic Training Data (SYN-MAD) held at the 2022 In-ternational …

DifFIQA: Face image quality assessment using denoising diffusion probabilistic models

Ž Babnik, P Peer, V Štruc - 2023 IEEE International Joint …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Modern face recognition (FR) models excel in constrained scenarios, but often suffer from
decreased performance when deployed in unconstrained (real-world) environments due to …

FaceQAN: Face image quality assessment through adversarial noise exploration

Ž Babnik, P Peer, V Štruc - 2022 26th International Conference …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent state-of-the-art face recognition (FR) approaches have achieved impressive
performance, yet unconstrained face recognition still represents an open problem. Face …

Masked face recognition: Human vs. machine

N Damer, F Boutros, M Süßmilch, M Fang… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
The recent COVID-19 pandemic has increased the focus on hygienic and contactless
identity verification methods. However, the pandemic led to the wide use of face masks …