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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

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

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) 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

Modern face recognition (FR) models excel in constrained scenarios, but often suffer from decreased performance when deployed in unconstrained (real-world) environments due to uncertainties surrounding the quality of the captured facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Žiga Babnik , Peter Peer , Vitomir Štruc

Face image quality assessment (FIQA) is essential for various face-related applications. Although FIQA has been extensively studied and achieved significant progress, the computational complexity of FIQA algorithms remains a key concern for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Wei Sun , Weixia Zhang , Linhan Cao , Jun Jia , Xiangyang Zhu , Dandan Zhu , Xiongkuo Min , Guangtao Zhai

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

Face image quality is an important factor to enable high performance face recognition systems. Face quality assessment aims at estimating the suitability of a face image for recognition. Previous work proposed supervised solutions that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-23 Philipp Terhörst , Jan Niklas Kolf , Naser Damer , Florian Kirchbuchner , Arjan Kuijper

In recent years, Face Image Quality Assessment (FIQA) has become an indispensable part of the face recognition system to guarantee the stability and reliability of recognition performance in an unconstrained scenario. For this purpose, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Fu-Zhao Ou , Xingyu Chen , Ruixin Zhang , Yuge Huang , Shaoxin Li , Jilin Li , Yong Li , Liujuan Cao , Yuan-Gen Wang

Face recognition has made significant progress in recent years due to deep convolutional neural networks (CNN). In many face recognition (FR) scenarios, face images are acquired from a sequence with huge intra-variations. These…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Baoyun Peng , Min Liu , Zhaoning Zhang , Kai Xu , Dongsheng Li

Face image quality assessment (FIQA) plays a critical role in face recognition and verification systems, especially in uncontrolled, real-world environments. Although several methods have been proposed, general-purpose no-reference image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-15 MohammadAli Hamidi , Hadi Amirpour , Luigi Atzori , Christian Timmerer

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

In the realm of face image quality assesment (FIQA), method based on sample relative classification have shown impressive performance. However, the quality scores used as pseudo-labels assigned from images of classes with low intra-class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Minsoo Kim , Gi Pyo Nam , Haksub Kim , Haesol Park , Ig-Jae Kim

Face Image Quality Assessment (FIQA) evaluates the utility of a face image for automated face recognition (FR) systems. In this work, we propose PreFIQs, an unsupervised and training-free FIQA framework grounded in the Pruning Identified…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Jan Niklas Kolf , Guray Ozgur , Andrea Atzori , Žiga Babnik , Vitomir Štruc , Naser Damer , Fadi Boutros

It is challenging to derive explainability for unsupervised or statistical-based face image quality assessment (FIQA) methods. In this work, we propose a novel set of explainability tools to derive reasoning for different FIQA decisions and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-10 Biying Fu , Naser Damer

Face image quality plays a critical role in determining the accuracy and reliability of face verification systems, particularly in real-time screening applications such as surveillance, identity verification, and access control. Low-quality…

Face Image Quality Assessment (FIQA) is essential for reliable face recognition systems. Current approaches primarily exploit only final-layer representations, while training-free methods require multiple forward passes or backpropagation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Guray Ozgur , Eduarda Caldeira , Tahar Chettaoui , Jan Niklas Kolf , Marco Huber , Naser Damer , Fadi Boutros

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

Measuring the accuracy of face recognition (FR) systems is essential for improving performance and ensuring responsible use. Accuracy is typically estimated using large annotated datasets, which are costly and difficult to obtain. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Manuel Knott , Ignacio Serna , Ethan Mann , Pietro Perona
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