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This paper presents a novel facial sketch image or face-sketch recognition approach based on facial feature extraction. To recognize a face-sketch, we have concentrated on a set of geometric face features like eyes, nose, eyebrows, lips,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-12-06 Sourav Pramanik , Debotosh Bhattacharjee

The vast progress in synthetic image synthesis enables the generation of facial images in high resolution and photorealism. In biometric applications, the main motivation for using synthetic data is to solve the shortage of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-18 Marcel Grimmer , Haoyu Zhang , Raghavendra Ramachandra , Kiran Raja , Christoph Busch

Biometric recognition is a trending technology that uses unique characteristics data to identify or verify/authenticate security applications. Amidst the classically used biometrics, voice and face attributes are the most propitious for…

We present BioMetricNet: a novel framework for deep unconstrained face verification which learns a regularized metric to compare facial features. Differently from popular methods such as FaceNet, the proposed approach does not impose any…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-14 Arslan Ali , Matteo Testa , Tiziano Bianchi , Enrico Magli

The performance of face recognition systems can be negatively impacted in the presence of masks and other types of facial coverings that have become prevalent due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In such cases, the periocular region of the human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Renu Sharma , Arun Ross

Face quality assessment aims at estimating the utility of a face image for the purpose of recognition. It is a key factor to achieve high face recognition performances. Currently, the high performance of these face recognition systems come…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-13 Philipp Terhörst , Jan Niklas Kolf , Naser Damer , Florian Kirchbuchner , Arjan Kuijper

Recently, different researchers have found that the gallery composition of a face database can induce performance differentials to facial identification systems in which a probe image is compared against up to all stored reference images to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Pawel Drozdowski , Christian Rathgeb , Christoph Busch

As multimedia content is quickly growing, the field of facial recognition has become one of the major research fields, particularly in the recent years. The most problematic area to researchers in image processing and computer vision is the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Aya Kaysan Bahjat

Recognizing the same faces with and without masks is important for ensuring consistent identification in security, access control, and public safety. This capability is crucial in scenarios like law enforcement, healthcare, and…

Multimodal biometric identification has been grown a great attention in the most interests in the security fields. In the real world there exist modern system devices that are able to detect, recognize, and classify the human identities…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-05 M. Y. Shams , A. S. Tolba , S. H. Sarhan

Facial filters are now commonplace for social media users around the world. Previous work has demonstrated that facial filters can negatively impact automated face recognition performance. However, these studies focus on small numbers of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Kagan Ozturk , Louisa Conwill , Jacob Gutierrez , Kevin Bowyer , Walter J. Scheirer

Gender recognition from unconstrained face images is a challenging task due to the high degree of misalignment, pose, expression, and illumination variation. In previous works, the recognition of gender from unconstrained face images is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Olasimbo Ayodeji Arigbabu , Sharifah Mumtazah Syed Ahmad , Wan Azizun Wan Adnan , Salman Yussof , Saif Mahmood

A face image not only provides details about the identity of a subject but also reveals several attributes such as gender, race, sexual orientation, and age. Advancements in machine learning algorithms and popularity of sharing images on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-01 Saheb Chhabra , Richa Singh , Mayank Vatsa , Gaurav Gupta

Face recognition (FR) systems have a growing effect on critical decision-making processes. Recent works have shown that FR solutions show strong performance differences based on the user's demographics. However, to enable a trustworthy FR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Philipp Terhörst , Jan Niklas Kolf , Marco Huber , Florian Kirchbuchner , Naser Damer , Aythami Morales , Julian Fierrez , Arjan Kuijper

Various face image datasets intended for facial biometrics research were created via web-scraping, i.e. the collection of images publicly available on the internet. This work presents an approach to detect both exactly and nearly identical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Torsten Schlett , Christian Rathgeb , Juan Tapia , Christoph Busch

The growth in electronic transactions and human machine interactions rely on the information such as gender, age, expression and ethnicity provided by the face image. In order to obtain these information, feature extraction plays a major…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-07 N. S. Lakshmiprabha

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

Biometrics involves using unique human traits, both physical and behavioral, for the digital identification of individuals to provide access to systems, devices, or information. Within the field of computer science, it acts as a method for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Sajjad Bhuiyan

Unconstrained face recognition is an active research area among computer vision and biometric researchers for many years now. Still the problem of face recognition in low quality photos has not been well-studied so far. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Iqbal Nouyed , Na Zhang

Gender is an important demographic attribute of people. This paper provides a survey of human gender recognition in computer vision. A review of approaches exploiting information from face and whole body (either from a still image or gait…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-04-10 Choon Boon Ng , Yong Haur Tay , Bok Min Goi