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The Effect of Wearing a Mask on Face Recognition Performance: an Exploratory Study

arXiv 2007.13521 ↗First posted 27 Jul 2020cs.CVcited by 26

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Abstract (arXiv)

Face recognition has become essential in our daily lives as a convenient and contactless method of accurate identity verification. Process such as identity verification at automatic border control gates or the secure login to electronic devices are increasingly dependant on such technologies. The recent COVID-19 pandemic have increased the value of hygienic and contactless identity verification. However, the pandemic led to the wide use of face masks, essential to keep the pandemic under control. The effect of wearing a mask on face recognition in a collaborative environment is currently sensitive yet understudied issue. We address that by presenting a specifically collected database containing three session, each with three different capture instructions, to simulate realistic use cases. We further study the effect of masked face probes on the behaviour of three top-performing face recognition systems, two academic solutions and one commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) system.

Key facts. Cited by 26 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026). First posted on arXiv 27 Jul 2020.

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  1. 2021Self-restrained Triplet Loss for Accurate Masked Face Recognitioncited by 32
  2. 2021MFR 2021: Masked Face Recognition Competitioncited by 23
  3. 2021Real Masks and Spoof Faces: On the Masked Face Presentation Attack Detectioncited by 20
  4. 2021Boosting Masked Face Recognition with Multi-Task ArcFacecited by 13
  5. 2021FocusFace: Multi-task Contrastive Learning for Masked Face Recognitioncited by 12
  6. 2021Biometrics in the Era of COVID-19: Challenges and Opportunitiescited by 11
  7. 2021On the Effect of Selfie Beautification Filters on Face Detection and Recognitioncited by 10
  8. 2021Partial Attack Supervision and Regional Weighted Inference for Masked Face Presentation Attack Detectioncited by 10
  9. 2021Mask-invariant Face Recognition through Template-level Knowledge Distillationcited by 10
  10. 2022Periocular Biometrics and its Relevance to Partially Masked Faces: A Surveycited by 10
  11. 2021Masked Face Recognition: Human vs. Machinecited by 9
  12. 2022Eight Years of Face Recognition Research: Reproducibility, Achievements and Open Issuescited by 8
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  1. 2021My Eyes Are Up Here: Promoting Focus on Uncovered Regions in Masked Face Recognitioncited by 7
  2. 2021The Effect of Wearing a Face Mask on Face Image Qualitycited by 7
  3. 2022OCFR 2022: Competition on Occluded Face Recognition From Synthetically Generated Structure-Aware Occlusionscited by 7
  4. 2021Unconstrained Face-Mask & Face-Hand Datasets: Building a Computer Vision System to Help Prevent the Transmission of COVID-19cited by 5
  5. 2021Longitudinal Analysis of Mask and No-Mask on Child Face Recognitioncited by 4
  6. 2021Selfie Periocular Verification using an Efficient Super-Resolution Approachcited by 3
  7. 2021Multi-Dataset Benchmarks for Masked Identification using Contrastive Representation Learningcited by 3
  8. 2021Indian Masked Faces in the Wild Datasetcited by 3
  9. 2022A Survey on Computer Vision based Human Analysis in the COVID-19 Eracited by 3
  10. 2021Does a Face Mask Protect my Privacy?: Deep Learning to Predict Protected Attributes from Masked Face Imagescited by 2
  11. 2023An Exploratory Study of Masked Face Recognition with Machine Learning Algorithmscited by 2
  12. 2022A Comprehensive Study on Occlusion Invariant Face Recognition under Face Mask Occlusioncited by 1
  13. 2022Analysis of face detection, face landmarking, and face recognition performance with masked face imagescited by 1
  14. 2024Decoding Emotions: Unveiling Facial Expressions through Acoustic Sensing with Contrastive Attentioncited by 0