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Face image quality assessment (FIQA) is crucial for obtaining good face recognition performance. FIQA algorithms should be robust and insensitive to demographic factors. The eye sclera has a consistent whitish color in all humans regardless…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Wassim Kabbani , Christoph Busch , Kiran Raja

Face image quality assessment (FIQA) attempts to improve face recognition (FR) performance by providing additional information about sample quality. Because FIQA methods attempt to estimate the utility of a sample for face recognition, it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Žiga Babnik , Vitomir Štruc

Face image quality assessment (FIQA) algorithms are being integrated into online identity management applications. These applications allow users to upload a face image as part of their document issuance process, where the image is then run…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Wassim Kabbani , Kiran Raja , Raghavendra Ramachandra , Christoph Busch

Face Recognition (FR) plays a crucial role in many critical (high-stakes) applications, where errors in the recognition process can lead to serious consequences. Face Image Quality Assessment (FIQA) techniques enhance FR systems by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Žiga Babnik , Deepak Kumar Jain , Peter Peer , Vitomir Štruc

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

Numerous studies have shown that existing Face Recognition Systems (FRS), including commercial ones, often exhibit biases toward certain ethnicities due to under-represented data. In this work, we explore ethnicity alteration and skin tone…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Praveen Kumar Chandaliya , Kiran Raja , Raghavendra Ramachandra , Zahid Akhtar , Christoph Busch

The quality of face images significantly influences the performance of underlying face recognition algorithms. Face image quality assessment (FIQA) estimates the utility of the captured image in achieving reliable and accurate recognition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Fadi Boutros , Meiling Fang , Marcel Klemt , Biying Fu , Naser Damer

Contemporary face recognition (FR) models achieve near-ideal recognition performance in constrained settings, yet do not fully translate the performance to unconstrained (realworld) scenarios. To help improve the performance and stability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Žiga Babnik , Naser Damer , Vitomir Štruc

Face Image Quality Assessment (FIQA) estimates the utility of face images for automated face recognition (FR) systems. We propose in this work a novel approach to assess the quality of face images based on inspecting the required changes in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Jan Niklas Kolf , Naser Damer , Fadi Boutros

Face recognition in unconstrained environments such as surveillance, video, and web imagery must contend with extreme variation in pose, blur, illumination, and occlusion, where conventional visual quality metrics fail to predict whether…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Allen Tu , Kartik Narayan , Joshua Gleason , Jennifer Xu , Matthew Meyn , Tom Goldstein , Vishal M. Patel

Face Image Quality Assessment (FIQA) aims to assess the recognition utility of face samples and is essential for reliable face recognition (FR) systems. Existing approaches require computationally expensive procedures such as multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Guray Ozgur , Tahar Chettaoui , Eduarda Caldeira , Jan Niklas Kolf , Marco Huber , Andrea Atzori , Naser Damer , Fadi Boutros

The goal of the project "Facial Metrics for EES" is to develop, implement and publish an open source algorithm for the quality assessment of facial images (OFIQ) for face recognition, in particular for border control scenarios.1 In order to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Johannes Merkle , Christian Rathgeb , Benjamin Tams , Dhay-Parn Lou , André Dörsch , Pawel Drozdowski

Surveillance facial images are often captured under unconstrained conditions, resulting in severe quality degradation due to factors such as low resolution, motion blur, occlusion, and poor lighting. Although recent face restoration…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-10 Yanwei Jiang , Wei Sun , Yingjie Zhou , Xiangyang Zhu , Yuqin Cao , Jun Jia , Yunhao Li , Sijing Wu , Dandan Zhu , Xingkuo Min , Guangtao Zhai

Understanding how facial affect analysis (FAA) systems perform across different demographic groups requires reliable measurement of sensitive attributes such as ancestry, often approximated by skin tone, which itself is highly influenced by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Ana M. Cabanas , Alma Pedro , Domingo Mery

While recent face recognition (FR) systems achieve excellent results in many deployment scenarios, their performance in challenging real-world settings is still under question. For this reason, face image quality assessment (FIQA)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-01 Žiga Babnik , Vitomir Štruc

Recent state-of-the-art face recognition (FR) approaches have achieved impressive performance, yet unconstrained face recognition still represents an open problem. Face image quality assessment (FIQA) approaches aim to estimate the quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Žiga Babnik , Peter Peer , Vitomir Štruc

Demographic fairness in face recognition (FR) has emerged as a critical area of research, given its impact on fairness, equity, and reliability across diverse applications. As FR technologies are increasingly deployed globally, disparities…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Ketan Kotwal , Sebastien Marcel

Retinal image quality assessment (RIQA) is essential for controlling the quality of retinal imaging and guaranteeing the reliability of diagnoses by ophthalmologists or automated analysis systems. Existing RIQA methods focus on the RGB…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-10 Huazhu Fu , Boyang Wang , Jianbing Shen , Shanshan Cui , Yanwu Xu , Jiang Liu , Ling Shao

The performance of face analysis and recognition systems depends on the quality of the acquired face data, which is influenced by numerous factors. Automatically assessing the quality of face data in terms of biometric utility can thus be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-14 Torsten Schlett , Christian Rathgeb , Olaf Henniger , Javier Galbally , Julian Fierrez , Christoph Busch
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