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Biometrics in the Era of COVID-19: Challenges and Opportunities

arXiv 2102.09258 ↗First posted 18 Feb 2021cs.CY cs.CR cs.CVcited by 11

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Abstract (arXiv)

Since early 2020 the COVID-19 pandemic has had a considerable impact on many aspects of daily life. A range of different measures have been implemented worldwide to reduce the rate of new infections and to manage the pressure on national health services. A primary strategy has been to reduce gatherings and the potential for transmission through the prioritisation of remote working and education. Enhanced hand hygiene and the use of facial masks have decreased the spread of pathogens when gatherings are unavoidable. These particular measures present challenges for reliable biometric recognition, e.g. for facial-, voice- and hand-based biometrics. At the same time, new challenges create new opportunities and research directions, e.g. renewed interest in non-constrained iris or periocular recognition, touch-less fingerprint- and vein-based authentication and the use of biometric characteristics for disease detection. This article presents an overview of the research carried out to address those challenges and emerging opportunities.

Key facts. Cited by 11 papers in the map (data through 7 Oct 2026). Builds on 28 of its 170 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 18 Feb 2021.

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Citing papers per year: 2021: 5; 2022: 2; 2023: 1; 2024: 2; 2025: 0; 2026: 1.

11 papers.

  1. 2021MFR 2021: Masked Face Recognition Competitioncited by 23
  2. 2021FocusFace: Multi-task Contrastive Learning for Masked Face Recognitioncited by 12
  3. 2021Mask-invariant Face Recognition through Template-level Knowledge Distillationcited by 10
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  5. 2021The Effect of Wearing a Face Mask on Face Image Qualitycited by 7
  6. 2022OCFR 2022: Competition on Occluded Face Recognition From Synthetically Generated Structure-Aware Occlusionscited by 7
  7. 2022Fun Selfie Filters in Face Recognition: Impact Assessment and Removalcited by 6
  8. 2023Physics-Driven Spectrum-Consistent Federated Learning for Palmprint Verificationcited by 6
  9. 2024Recent Advancement in 3D Biometrics using Monocular Cameracited by 1
  10. 2024A Lightweight Transformer with Phase-Only Cross-Attention for Illumination-Invariant Biometric Authenticationcited by 1
  11. 2026Image Quality Assessment of Identity Cards Using Measures from Open Face Image Qualitycited by 0