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Face recognition (FR) systems continue to spread in our daily lives with an increasing demand for higher explainability and interpretability of FR systems that are mainly based on deep learning. While bias across demographic groups in FR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Marco Huber , Meiling Fang , Fadi Boutros , Naser Damer

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 five decades, automated face recognition (FR) has progressed from handcrafted geometric and statistical approaches to advanced deep learning architectures that now approach, and in many cases exceed, human performance. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Minchul Kim , Anil Jain , Xiaoming Liu

The capacity to recognize faces under varied poses is a fundamental human ability that presents a unique challenge for computer vision systems. Compared to frontal face recognition, which has been intensively studied and has gradually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-19 Changxing Ding , Dacheng Tao

Facial recognition systems are increasingly deployed by private corporations, government agencies, and contractors for consumer services and mass surveillance programs alike. These systems are typically built by scraping social media…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Valeriia Cherepanova , Micah Goldblum , Harrison Foley , Shiyuan Duan , John Dickerson , Gavin Taylor , Tom Goldstein

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

Automated facial identification and facial expression recognition have been topics of active research over the past few decades. Facial and expression recognition find applications in human-computer interfaces, subject tracking, real-time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-25 Sohini Roychowdhury , Michelle Emmons

Deep learning-based face recognition (FR) systems pose significant privacy risks by tracking users without their consent. While adversarial attacks can protect privacy, they often produce visible artifacts compromising user experience. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Fahad Shamshad , Muzammal Naseer , Karthik Nandakumar

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

Face Recognition (FR) technology has made significant strides with the emergence of deep learning. Typically, most existing FR models are built upon Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) and take RGB face images as the model's input. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Jun Dan , Yang Liu , Baigui Sun , Jiankang Deng , Shan Luo

While the rapid development of facial recognition algorithms has enabled numerous beneficial applications, their widespread deployment has raised significant concerns about the risks of mass surveillance and threats to individual privacy.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Paweł Borsukiewicz , Daniele Lunghi , Melissa Tessa , Jacques Klein , Tegawendé F. Bissyandé

The proliferation of digital technologies has led to unprecedented data collection, with facial data emerging as a particularly sensitive commodity. Companies are increasingly leveraging advanced facial recognition technologies, often…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Lambert Hogenhout , Rinzin Wangmo

Face-morphing attacks have been a cause for concern for a number of years. Striving to remain one step ahead of attackers, researchers have proposed many methods of both creating and detecting morphed images. These detection methods,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Richard T. Marriott , Sami Romdhani , Stéphane Gentric , Liming Chen

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

Face recognition (FR) has recently made substantial progress and achieved high accuracy on standard benchmarks. However, it has raised security concerns in enormous FR applications because deep CNNs are unusually vulnerable to adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-30 Xiao Yang , Dingcheng Yang , Yinpeng Dong , Hang Su , Wenjian Yu , Jun Zhu

With the growing attention on data privacy and communication security in face recognition applications, federated learning has been introduced to learn a face recognition model with decentralized datasets in a privacy-preserving manner.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Di Qiu , Xinyang Lin , Kaiye Wang , Xiangxiang Chu , Pengfei Yan

The widespread use of image acquisition technologies, along with advances in facial recognition, has raised serious privacy concerns. Face de-identification usually refers to the process of concealing or replacing personal identifiers,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Jingyi Cao , Xiangyi Chen , Bo Liu , Ming Ding , Rong Xie , Li Song , Zhu Li , Wenjun Zhang

Augmented Reality or AR filters on selfies have become very popular on social media platforms for a variety of applications, including marketing, entertainment and aesthetics. Given the wide adoption of AR face filters and the importance of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Piera Riccio , Bill Psomas , Francesco Galati , Francisco Escolano , Thomas Hofmann , Nuria Oliver

AI based Face Recognition Systems (FRSs) are now widely distributed and deployed as MLaaS solutions all over the world, moreso since the COVID-19 pandemic for tasks ranging from validating individuals' faces while buying SIM cards to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Siddharth D Jaiswal , Ankit Kr. Verma , Animesh Mukherjee

Face Recognition systems are widely deployed in real-world applications, but they also raise privacy concerns due to unauthorized collection and misuse of facial data. Existing adversarial privacy protection methods rely on input-space…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Jiabei Zhang , Ziyuan Yang , Andrew Beng Jin Teoh , Yi Zhang