Hugging Face Trending Papers

Optimizing Image Preparation and Compression for Face Recognition within 1024 Bytes

ICAO-compliant machine readable travel documents enable automated biometric face verification. The biometric reference is stored on an RFID chip included in form of a JPEG or JPEG 2000 compressed facial image.

arXiv AI
Oct 27

GMoE-FTI: A Universal Facial Template Inversion Method Adopting Genuine Mixture-of-Experts Mechanism

The paper introduces GMoE-FTI, a universal facial template inversion framework that uses a genuine mixture‑of‑experts mechanism to reconstruct faces from various template types. It trains five mapping experts and a matching module, then combines their outputs during inference and fine‑tunes all components jointly, achieving superior performance on the LFW benchmark. Evaluations on seven unseen template types show a 40% improvement in true accept rate and reductions in false accept rates, demonstrating its broad applicability.

By Zixuan Shen, Zhihua Xia, Kaikai Gan, Peipeng Yu
arXiv AI
Jun 4

CounterFace: A Synthetic Face Dataset for Fine-Grained Counterfactual Evaluation of Face Recognition Systems

arXiv:2407. 13922v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Face recognition (FR) systems are widely deployed in critical applications, making their reliability and robustness across diverse populations and conditions essential.

By Guruprasad Viswanathan Ramesh, Ashish Hooda, Shimaa Ahmed, Harrison J Rosenberg, Ramya Korlakai Vinayak, Kassem Fawaz
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 22

Towards Robust Classroom Attendance: A Comprehensive Evaluation of Face Detection and Recognition Models

The paper introduces the Visage Face dataset, containing 16,234 face samples captured in varied classroom conditions such as different angles, lighting, expressions, and partial occlusions. Using a YOLO-based detector, the authors evaluate seven state‑of‑the‑art face recognition models across thirteen configurations, finding that FaceLiVTv2‑M achieves the highest performance with 99.75% Top‑1/Top‑5 accuracy and a 6.459 ms inference time. These findings demonstrate that the Visage Face dataset provides a realistic and challenging benchmark for classroom attendance systems.

By Himani Trivedi, Hiren Patel, Ridham Patel, Krutika Patel, Nancy Patel
arXiv AI
Aug 11

A Combined Feature-Based Framework for Disguise and Spoofing Detection in Face Recognition Systems

arXiv:2608. 08521v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Face recognition systems face two distinct, commonly-separated failure modes: spoofing, where an impostor presents a photograph or video of an authorized user, and disguise, where a legitimate user is rejected because their appearance differs from their enrolled template due to accessories, facial hair, illumination, or pose.

By Sangiya Pararajasingham
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 2

Evaluating Vision-Language Models as a Zero-Shot Learning Alternative to You Only Look Once and Optical Character Recognition for Nigerian License Plate Recognition

License Plate Recognition (LPR) systems are critical tools in traffic monitoring, security enforcement, and urban mobility management. Traditional LPR systems often rely on a multi-stage pipeline involving object detection using You Only Look Once (YOLO) and Optical Character Recognition (OCR), which suffer from limitations such as high resource demands, poor performance in unstructured environments, and the need for large annotated datasets.