50 years of biometric research: Accomplishments, challenges, and opportunities

AK Jain, K Nandakumar, A Ross - Pattern recognition letters, 2016 - Elsevier
Biometric recognition refers to the automated recognition of individuals based on their
biological and behavioral characteristics such as fingerprint, face, iris, and voice. The first …

Super-resolution for biometrics: A comprehensive survey

K Nguyen, C Fookes, S Sridharan, M Tistarelli… - Pattern Recognition, 2018 - Elsevier
The lack of resolution of imaging systems has critically adverse impacts on the recognition
and performance of biometric systems, especially in the case of long range biometrics and …

Demographic bias in biometrics: A survey on an emerging challenge

P Drozdowski, C Rathgeb, A Dantcheva… - … on Technology and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Systems incorporating biometric technologies have become ubiquitous in personal,
commercial, and governmental identity management applications. Both cooperative (eg …

A comprehensive study on face recognition biases beyond demographics

P Terhörst, JN Kolf, M Huber… - … on Technology and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Face recognition (FR) systems have a growing effect on critical decision-making processes.
Recent works have shown that FR solutions show strong performance differences based on …

Very low resolution face recognition problem

WWW Zou, PC Yuen - IEEE Transactions on image processing, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper addresses the very low resolution (VLR) problem in face recognition in which the
resolution of the face image to be recognized is lower than 16× 16. With the increasing …

Studying very low resolution recognition using deep networks

Z Wang, S Chang, Y Yang, D Liu… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Visual recognition research often assumes a sufficient resolution of the region of interest
(ROI). That is usually violated in practice, inspiring us to explore the Very Low Resolution …

Gendered differences in face recognition accuracy explained by hairstyles, makeup, and facial morphology

V Albiero, K Zhang, MC King… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Media reports have accused face recognition of being “biased”,“sexist” and “racist”. There is
consensus in the research literature that face recognition accuracy is lower for females, who …

Analysis of gender inequality in face recognition accuracy

V Albiero, K Ks, K Vangara, K Zhang… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - openaccess.thecvf.com
We present a comprehensive analysis of how and why face recognition accuracy differs
between men and women. We show that accuracy is lower for women due to the …

Longitudinal study of automatic face recognition

L Best-Rowden, AK Jain - IEEE transactions on pattern …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The two underlying premises of automatic face recognition are uniqueness and
permanence. This paper investigates the permanence property by addressing the following …

Characterizing the variability in face recognition accuracy relative to race

K Vangara, MC King, V Albiero… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Many recent news headlines have labeled face recognition technology as" biased" or"
racist". We report on a methodical investigation into differences in face recognition accuracy …