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MFR 2021: Masked Face Recognition Competition

arXiv 2106.15288 ↗First posted 29 Jun 2021cs.CVcited by 23

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Abstract (arXiv)

This paper presents a summary of the Masked Face Recognition Competitions (MFR) held within the 2021 International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB 2021). The competition attracted a total of 10 participating teams with valid submissions. The affiliations of these teams are diverse and associated with academia and industry in nine different countries. These teams successfully submitted 18 valid solutions. The competition is designed to motivate solutions aiming at enhancing the face recognition accuracy of masked faces. Moreover, the competition considered the deployability of the proposed solutions by taking the compactness of the face recognition models into account. A private dataset representing a collaborative, multi-session, real masked, capture scenario is used to evaluate the submitted solutions. In comparison to one of the top-performing academic face recognition solutions, 10 out of the 18 submitted solutions did score higher masked face verification accuracy.

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  1. 2022WebFace260M: A Benchmark for Million-Scale Deep Face Recognitioncited by 42
  2. 2024SDFR: Synthetic Data for Face Recognition Competitioncited by 28
  3. 2022FaceQAN: Face Image Quality Assessment Through Adversarial Noise Explorationcited by 18
  4. 2023A Quality Aware Sample-to-Sample Comparison for Face Recognitioncited by 17
  5. 2021On Recognizing Occluded Faces in the Wildcited by 15
  6. 2021Masked Face Recognition Challenge: The WebFace260M Track Reportcited by 12
  7. 2021FocusFace: Multi-task Contrastive Learning for Masked Face Recognitioncited by 12
  8. 2021MLFW: A Database for Face Recognition on Masked Facescited by 10
  9. 2021Partial Attack Supervision and Regional Weighted Inference for Masked Face Presentation Attack Detectioncited by 10
  10. 2021Mask-invariant Face Recognition through Template-level Knowledge Distillationcited by 10
  11. 2022Periocular Biometrics and its Relevance to Partially Masked Faces: A Surveycited by 10
  12. 2022Causality-Inspired Taxonomy for Explainable Artificial Intelligencecited by 9
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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. 2023EFaR 2023: Efficient Face Recognition Competitioncited by 7
  5. 2025Review of Demographic Fairness in Face Recognitioncited by 7
  6. 2022Fun Selfie Filters in Face Recognition: Impact Assessment and Removalcited by 6
  7. 2022A Survey on Masked Facial Detection Methods and Datasets for Fighting Against COVID-19cited by 5
  8. 2021Longitudinal Analysis of Mask and No-Mask on Child Face Recognitioncited by 4
  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. 2022Masked Faces with Faced Maskscited by 2