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Erratum to the paper (Zhang et al., 2025): corrections to Table IV and the data in Page 3, Section A. In the post-pandemic era, a high proportion of civil aviation passengers wear masks during security checks, posing significant challenges…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Bo Zhang , Ming Zhang , Kun Wu , Lei Bian , Yi Lin

Face identity masking algorithms developed in recent years aim to protect the privacy of people in video recordings. These algorithms are designed to interfere with identification, while preserving information about facial actions. An…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-23 Madeline Rachow , Thomas Karnowski , Alice J. O'Toole

Predicting attributes in the landmark free facial images is itself a challenging task which gets further complicated when the face gets occluded due to the usage of masks. Smart access control gates which utilize identity verification or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-12 Prerana Mukherjee , Vinay Kaushik , Ronak Gupta , Ritika Jha , Daneshwari Kankanwadi , Brejesh Lall

According to WHO statistics, there are more than 204,617,027 confirmed COVID-19 cases including 4,323,247 deaths worldwide till August 12, 2021. During the coronavirus epidemic, almost everyone wears a facial mask. Traditionally, face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-21 Zheng Zhu , Guan Huang , Jiankang Deng , Yun Ye , Junjie Huang , Xinze Chen , Jiagang Zhu , Tian Yang , Jia Guo , Jiwen Lu , Dalong Du , Jie Zhou

During the SARS-Cov-2 pandemic, mask-wearing became an effective tool to prevent spreading and contracting the virus. The ability to monitor the mask-wearing rate in the population would be useful for determining public health strategies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Benjaphan Sommana , Ukrit Watchareeruetai , Ankush Ganguly , Samuel W. F. Earp , Taya Kitiyakara , Suparee Boonmanunt , Ratchainant Thammasudjarit

Identifying human emotions using AI-based computer vision systems, when individuals wear face masks, presents a new challenge in the current Covid-19 pandemic. In this study, we propose a facial emotion recognition system capable of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Aref Farhadipour , Pouya Taghipour

In December 2019, a novel coronavirus (COVID-19) spread so quickly around the world that many countries had to set mandatory face mask rules in public areas to reduce the transmission of the virus. To monitor public adherence, researchers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Alperen Kantarcı , Ferda Ofli , Muhammad Imran , Hazım Kemal Ekenel

In spite of a growing body of scientific evidence on the effectiveness of individual face mask usage for reducing transmission rates, individual face mask usage has become a highly polarized topic within the United States. A series of…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Neil Yeung , Jonathan Lai , Jiebo Luo

Wearing a face mask is one of the adjustments we had to follow to reduce the spread of the coronavirus. Having our faces covered by masks constantly has driven the need to understand and investigate how this behavior affects the recognition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Mohammed R. Al-Sinan , Aseel F. Haneef , Hamzah Luqman

As Covid-19 has been constantly getting mutated and in three or four months a new variant gets introduced to us and it comes with more deadly problems. The things that prevent us from getting Covid is getting vaccinated and wearing a face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Abdullah Ahmad Khan , Mohd. Belal , GhufranUllah

Recent advances in machine learning and computer vision have led to reported facial recognition accuracies surpassing human performance. We question if these systems will translate to real-world forensic scenarios in which a potentially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-13 Justin Norman , Shruti Agarwal , Hany Farid

Machine learning applications in high-stakes scenarios should always operate under human oversight. Developing an optimal combination of human and machine intelligence requires an understanding of their complementarities, particularly…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Marina Estévez-Almenzar , Ricardo Baeza-Yates , Carlos Castillo

In response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, we present a robust deep learning pipeline that is capable of identifying correct and incorrect mask-wearing from real-time video streams. To accomplish this goal, we devised two separate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Yuchen Ding , Zichen Li , David Yastremsky

Health organizations advise social distancing, wearing face mask, and avoiding touching face to prevent the spread of coronavirus. Based on these protective measures, we developed a computer vision system to help prevent the transmission of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-16 Fevziye Irem Eyiokur , Hazım Kemal Ekenel , Alexander Waibel

In the post-pandemic era, wearing face masks has posed great challenge to the ordinary face recognition. In the previous study, researchers has applied pretrained VGG16, and ResNet50 to extract features on the elaborate curated existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Rui Cai , Xuying Ning , Peter N. Belhumeur

Face Recognition (FR) systems are being used in a variety of applications, including road crossings, banking, and mobile banking. The widespread use of FR systems has raised concerns about the safety of face biometrics against spoofing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Soham S. Sarpotdar

With rapid advances in machine learning (ML), more of this technology is being deployed into the real world interacting with us and our environment. One of the most widely applied application of ML is facial recognition as it is running on…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Léa Steinacker , Miriam Meckel , Genia Kostka , Damian Borth

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

Over the past few decades, interest in algorithms for face recognition has been growing rapidly and has even surpassed human-level performance. Despite their accomplishments, their practical integration with a real-time performance-hungry…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Adarsh Ghimire , Naoufel Werghi , Sajid Javed , Jorge Dias

Face Recognition (FR) is increasingly used in critical verification decisions and thus, there is a need for assessing the trustworthiness of such decisions. The confidence of a decision is often based on the overall performance of the model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Marco Huber , Philipp Terhörst , Florian Kirchbuchner , Naser Damer , Arjan Kuijper