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SER-FIQ: Unsupervised Estimation of Face Image Quality Based on Stochastic Embedding Robustness

Terhörst, Philipp ; Kolf, Jan Niklas ; Damer, Naser ; Kirchbuchner, Florian ; Kuijper, Arjan (2020)
SER-FIQ: Unsupervised Estimation of Face Image Quality Based on Stochastic Embedding Robustness.
2020 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. virtual Conference (13.-19.06.2020)
doi: 10.1109/CVPR42600.2020.00569
Konferenzveröffentlichung, Bibliographie

Kurzbeschreibung (Abstract)

Face image quality is an important factor to enable high-performance face recognition systems. Face quality assessment aims at estimating the suitability of a face image for the purpose of recognition. Previous work proposed supervised solutions that require artificially or human labelled quality values. However, both labelling mechanisms are error prone as they do not rely on a clear definition of quality and may not know the best characteristics for the utilized face recognition system. Avoiding the use of inaccurate quality labels, we proposed a novel concept to measure face quality based on an arbitrary face recognition model. By determining the embedding variations generated from random subnetworks of a face model, the robustness of a sample representation and thus, its quality is estimated. The experiments are conducted in a cross-database evaluation setting on three publicly available databases. We compare our proposed solution on two face embeddings against six state-of-the-art approaches from academia and industry. The results show that our unsupervised solution outperforms all other approaches in the majority of the investigated scenarios. In contrast to previous works, the proposed solution shows a stable performance over all scenarios. Utilizing the deployed face recognition model for our face quality assessment methodology avoids the training phase completely and further outperforms all baseline approaches by a large margin. Our solution can be easily integrated into current face recognition systems, and can be modified to other tasks beyond face recognition.

Typ des Eintrags: Konferenzveröffentlichung
Erschienen: 2020
Autor(en): Terhörst, Philipp ; Kolf, Jan Niklas ; Damer, Naser ; Kirchbuchner, Florian ; Kuijper, Arjan
Art des Eintrags: Bibliographie
Titel: SER-FIQ: Unsupervised Estimation of Face Image Quality Based on Stochastic Embedding Robustness
Sprache: Englisch
Publikationsjahr: 2020
Verlag: IEEE
Buchtitel: Proceedings : 2020 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition : CVPR 2020
Veranstaltungstitel: 2020 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Veranstaltungsort: virtual Conference
Veranstaltungsdatum: 13.-19.06.2020
DOI: 10.1109/CVPR42600.2020.00569
Kurzbeschreibung (Abstract):

Face image quality is an important factor to enable high-performance face recognition systems. Face quality assessment aims at estimating the suitability of a face image for the purpose of recognition. Previous work proposed supervised solutions that require artificially or human labelled quality values. However, both labelling mechanisms are error prone as they do not rely on a clear definition of quality and may not know the best characteristics for the utilized face recognition system. Avoiding the use of inaccurate quality labels, we proposed a novel concept to measure face quality based on an arbitrary face recognition model. By determining the embedding variations generated from random subnetworks of a face model, the robustness of a sample representation and thus, its quality is estimated. The experiments are conducted in a cross-database evaluation setting on three publicly available databases. We compare our proposed solution on two face embeddings against six state-of-the-art approaches from academia and industry. The results show that our unsupervised solution outperforms all other approaches in the majority of the investigated scenarios. In contrast to previous works, the proposed solution shows a stable performance over all scenarios. Utilizing the deployed face recognition model for our face quality assessment methodology avoids the training phase completely and further outperforms all baseline approaches by a large margin. Our solution can be easily integrated into current face recognition systems, and can be modified to other tasks beyond face recognition.

Freie Schlagworte: Biometrics, Face recognition, Image quality, Quality estimation
Fachbereich(e)/-gebiet(e): 20 Fachbereich Informatik
20 Fachbereich Informatik > Graphisch-Interaktive Systeme
20 Fachbereich Informatik > Mathematisches und angewandtes Visual Computing
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