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Facial recognition technology (FRT) is increasingly used in criminal investigations, yet most evaluations of its accuracy rely on high-quality images, unlike those often encountered by law enforcement. This study examines how five common…

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In this paper, we analyze some of our real-world deployment of face recognition (FR) systems for various applications and discuss the gaps between expectations of the user and what the system can deliver. We evaluate some of our proposed…

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Masked Face Recognition (MFR) is an increasingly important area in biometric recognition technologies, especially with the widespread use of masks as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. This development has created new challenges for facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Ali Haitham Abdul Amir , Zainab N. Nemer

Face recognition is a rapidly developing and widely applied aspect of biometric technologies. Its applications are broad, ranging from law enforcement to consumer applications, and industry efficiency and monitoring solutions. The recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-31 Andrew Jason Shepley

Face recognition systems are widely deployed in safety-critical applications, including law enforcement, yet they exhibit bias across a range of socio-demographic dimensions, such as gender and race. Conventional wisdom dictates that model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Samuel Dooley , Rhea Sanjay Sukthanker , John P. Dickerson , Colin White , Frank Hutter , Micah Goldblum

With the rapid progress over the past five years, face authentication has become the most pervasive biometric recognition method. Thanks to the high-accuracy recognition performance and user-friendly usage, automatic face recognition (AFR)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-30 Chenqi Kong , Shiqi Wang , Haoliang Li

We humans are biased - and our robotic creations are biased, too. Bias is a natural phenomenon that drives our perceptions and behavior, including when it comes to socially expressive robots that have humanlike features. Recognizing that we…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Katie Seaborn

The development of face recognition algorithms by academic and commercial organizations is growing rapidly due to the onset of deep learning and the widespread availability of training data. Though tests of face recognition algorithm…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-11 John J. Howard , Eli J. Laird , Yevgeniy B. Sirotin , Rebecca E. Rubin , Jerry L. Tipton , Arun R. Vemury

Facial recognition has become a widely used method for authentication and identification, with applications for secure access and locating missing persons. Its success is largely attributed to deep learning, which leverages large datasets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Pedro Vidal , Bernardo Biesseck , Luiz E. L. Coelho , Roger Granada , David Menotti

Face recognition is a biometric which is attracting significant research, commercial and government interest, as it provides a discreet, non-intrusive way of detecting, and recognizing individuals, without need for the subject's knowledge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-14 Andrew Jason Shepley

Recognizing, assessing, countering, and mitigating the biases of different nature from heterogeneous sources is a critical problem in designing a cognitive Decision Support System (DSS). An example of such a system is a cognitive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Kenneth Lai , Helder C. R. Oliveira , Ming Hou , Svetlana N. Yanushkevich , Vlad Shmerko

Face recognition is a long standing challenge in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI). The goal is to create systems that accurately detect, recognize, verify, and understand human faces. There are significant technical hurdles in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-10 Michele Merler , Nalini Ratha , Rogerio S. Feris , John R. Smith

Harms resulting from the development and deployment of facial processing technologies (FPT) have been met with increasing controversy. Several states and cities in the U.S. have banned the use of facial recognition by law enforcement and…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Rui-Jie Yew , Alice Xiang

Spectral imaging has recently gained traction for face recognition in biometric systems. We investigate the merits of spectral imaging for face recognition and the current challenges that hamper the widespread deployment of spectral sensors…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-06 Rumaisah Munir , Rizwan Ahmed Khan

Fairness in human-robot interaction critically depends on the reliability of the perceptual models that enable robots to interpret human behavior. While demographic biases have been widely studied in high-level facial analysis tasks, their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Pablo Parte , Roberto Valle , José M. Buenaposada , Luis Baumela

As Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies proliferate, concern has centered around the long-term dangers of job loss or threats of machines causing harm to humans. All of this concern, however, detracts from the more pertinent and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-09-24 Kirsten Lloyd

The ethical, social and legal issues surrounding facial analysis technologies have been widely debated in recent years. Key critics have argued that these technologies can perpetuate bias and discrimination, particularly against…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Marco Rondina , Fabiana Vinci , Antonio Vetrò , Juan Carlos De Martin

Over the past years, deep learning capabilities and the availability of large-scale training datasets advanced rapidly, leading to breakthroughs in face recognition accuracy. However, these technologies are foreseen to face a major…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Fadi Boutros , Vitomir Struc , Julian Fierrez , Naser Damer

Face recognition and verification are two computer vision tasks whose performance has progressed with the introduction of deep representations. However, ethical, legal, and technical challenges due to the sensitive character of face data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Alexandre Fournier-Montgieux , Michael Soumm , Adrian Popescu , Bertrand Luvison , Hervé Le Borgne

Facial Recognition Technology (FRT) is a pioneering field of mass surveillance that sparks privacy concerns and is considered a growing threat in the modern world. FRT has been widely adopted in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to improve public…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Amani Mohammed Alqarni , Daniel Timko , Muhammad Lutfor Rahman