Search Results for author: Fadi Boutros

Found 40 papers, 22 papers with code

AI-KD: Towards Alignment Invariant Face Image Quality Assessment Using Knowledge Distillation

1 code implementation15 Apr 2024 Žiga Babnik, Fadi Boutros, Naser Damer, Peter Peer, Vitomir Štruc

To address this problem, we present in this paper a novel knowledge distillation approach, termed AI-KD that can extend on any existing FIQA technique, improving its robustness to alignment variations and, in turn, performance with different alignment procedures.

Face Alignment Face Image Quality +3

Bias and Diversity in Synthetic-based Face Recognition

no code implementations7 Nov 2023 Marco Huber, Anh Thi Luu, Fadi Boutros, Arjan Kuijper, Naser Damer

In this work, we investigate how the diversity of synthetic face recognition datasets compares to authentic datasets, and how the distribution of the training data of the generative models affects the distribution of the synthetic data.

Attribute Synthetic Face Recognition

IDiff-Face: Synthetic-based Face Recognition through Fizzy Identity-Conditioned Diffusion Models

1 code implementation9 Aug 2023 Fadi Boutros, Jonas Henry Grebe, Arjan Kuijper, Naser Damer

The availability of large-scale authentic face databases has been crucial to the significant advances made in face recognition research over the past decade.

Ranked #2 on Synthetic Face Recognition on AgeDB-30 (Accuracy metric)

Synthetic Face Recognition

EFaR 2023: Efficient Face Recognition Competition

1 code implementation8 Aug 2023 Jan Niklas Kolf, Fadi Boutros, Jurek Elliesen, Markus Theuerkauf, Naser Damer, Mohamad Alansari, Oussama Abdul Hay, Sara Alansari, Sajid Javed, Naoufel Werghi, Klemen Grm, Vitomir Štruc, Fernando Alonso-Fernandez, Kevin Hernandez Diaz, Josef Bigun, Anjith George, Christophe Ecabert, Hatef Otroshi Shahreza, Ketan Kotwal, Sébastien Marcel, Iurii Medvedev, Bo Jin, Diogo Nunes, Ahmad Hassanpour, Pankaj Khatiwada, Aafan Ahmad Toor, Bian Yang

To drive further development of efficient face recognition models, the submitted solutions are ranked based on a weighted score of the achieved verification accuracies on a diverse set of benchmarks, as well as the deployability given by the number of floating-point operations and model size.

Lightweight Face Recognition Quantization

ExFaceGAN: Exploring Identity Directions in GAN's Learned Latent Space for Synthetic Identity Generation

1 code implementation11 Jul 2023 Fadi Boutros, Marcel Klemt, Meiling Fang, Arjan Kuijper, Naser Damer

To generate multiple samples of a certain synthetic identity, previous works proposed to disentangle the latent space of GANs by incorporating additional supervision or regularization, enabling the manipulation of certain attributes.

Attribute Face Recognition

Synthetic Data for Face Recognition: Current State and Future Prospects

no code implementations1 May 2023 Fadi Boutros, Vitomir Struc, Julian Fierrez, Naser Damer

Over the past years, deep learning capabilities and the availability of large-scale training datasets advanced rapidly, leading to breakthroughs in face recognition accuracy.

Face Recognition

Identity-driven Three-Player Generative Adversarial Network for Synthetic-based Face Recognition

1 code implementation30 Apr 2023 Jan Niklas Kolf, Tim Rieber, Jurek Elliesen, Fadi Boutros, Arjan Kuijper, Naser Damer

We empirically proved that our IDnet synthetic images are of higher identity discrimination in comparison to the conventional two-player GAN, while maintaining a realistic intra-identity variation.

Generative Adversarial Network Synthetic Face Recognition

Are Explainability Tools Gender Biased? A Case Study on Face Presentation Attack Detection

no code implementations26 Apr 2023 Marco Huber, Meiling Fang, Fadi Boutros, Naser Damer

Face recognition (FR) systems continue to spread in our daily lives with an increasing demand for higher explainability and interpretability of FR systems that are mainly based on deep learning.

Face Presentation Attack Detection Face Recognition

IDiff-Face: Synthetic-based Face Recognition through Fizzy Identity-Conditioned Diffusion Model

1 code implementation ICCV 2023 Fadi Boutros, Jonas Henry Grebe, Arjan Kuijper, Naser Damer

The availability of large-scale authentic face databases has been crucial to the significant advances made in face recognition research over the past decade.

Face Recognition

Unsupervised Face Morphing Attack Detection via Self-paced Anomaly Detection

1 code implementation11 Aug 2022 Meiling Fang, Fadi Boutros, Naser Damer

However, given variations in the morphing attacks, the performance of supervised MAD solutions drops significantly due to the insufficient diversity and quantity of the existing MAD datasets.

Anomaly Detection Face Morphing Attack Detection +1

QuantFace: Towards Lightweight Face Recognition by Synthetic Data Low-bit Quantization

1 code implementation21 Jun 2022 Fadi Boutros, Naser Damer, Arjan Kuijper

Deep learning-based face recognition models follow the common trend in deep neural networks by utilizing full-precision floating-point networks with high computational costs.

Lightweight Face Recognition Quantization

SFace: Privacy-friendly and Accurate Face Recognition using Synthetic Data

1 code implementation21 Jun 2022 Fadi Boutros, Marco Huber, Patrick Siebke, Tim Rieber, Naser Damer

The reported evaluation results on five authentic face benchmarks demonstrated that the privacy-friendly synthetic dataset has high potential to be used for training face recognition models, achieving, for example, a verification accuracy of 91. 87\% on LFW using multi-class classification and 99. 13\% using the combined learning strategy.

Face Recognition Generative Adversarial Network +2

Intra and Cross-spectrum Iris Presentation Attack Detection in the NIR and Visible Domains

no code implementations5 May 2022 Meiling Fang, Fadi Boutros, Naser Damer

Extensive experiments are performed on six NIR and one visible-light iris databases to show the effectiveness and robustness of proposed A-PBS methods.

Iris Recognition

Privacy-friendly Synthetic Data for the Development of Face Morphing Attack Detectors

1 code implementation13 Mar 2022 Naser Damer, César Augusto Fontanillo López, Meiling Fang, Noémie Spiller, Minh Vu Pham, Fadi Boutros

The main question this work aims at answering is: "can morphing attack detection (MAD) solutions be successfully developed based on synthetic data?".

CR-FIQA: Face Image Quality Assessment by Learning Sample Relative Classifiability

1 code implementation CVPR 2023 Fadi Boutros, Meiling Fang, Marcel Klemt, Biying Fu, Naser Damer

Based on that, our proposed CR-FIQA uses this paradigm to estimate the face image quality of a sample by predicting its relative classifiability.

Face Image Quality Face Image Quality Assessment +1

Partial Attack Supervision and Regional Weighted Inference for Masked Face Presentation Attack Detection

no code implementations8 Nov 2021 Meiling Fang, Fadi Boutros, Arjan Kuijper, Naser Damer

Our proposed method outperforms established PAD methods in the CRMA database by reducing the mentioned shortcomings when facing masked faces.

Face Presentation Attack Detection Face Recognition

FocusFace: Multi-task Contrastive Learning for Masked Face Recognition

1 code implementation28 Oct 2021 Pedro C. Neto, Fadi Boutros, João Ribeiro Pinto, Naser Damer, Ana F. Sequeira, Jaime S. Cardoso

The proposed architecture is designed to be trained from scratch or to work on top of state-of-the-art face recognition methods without sacrificing the capabilities of a existing models in conventional face recognition tasks.

Contrastive Learning Face Recognition +1

ElasticFace: Elastic Margin Loss for Deep Face Recognition

2 code implementations20 Sep 2021 Fadi Boutros, Naser Damer, Florian Kirchbuchner, Arjan Kuijper

The recent state-of-the-art face recognition solutions proposed to incorporate a fixed penalty margin on commonly used classification loss function, softmax loss, in the normalized hypersphere to increase the discriminative power of face recognition models, by minimizing the intra-class variation and maximizing the inter-class variation.

 Ranked #1 on Face Recognition on IJB-B (TAR @ FAR=0.0001 metric)

Face Recognition Face Verification

PW-MAD: Pixel-wise Supervision for Generalized Face Morphing Attack Detection

no code implementations23 Aug 2021 Naser Damer, Noemie Spiller, Meiling Fang, Fadi Boutros, Florian Kirchbuchner, Arjan Kuijper

A face morphing attack image can be verified to multiple identities, making this attack a major vulnerability to processes based on identity verification, such as border checks.

Face Morphing Attack Detection

ReGenMorph: Visibly Realistic GAN Generated Face Morphing Attacks by Attack Re-generation

no code implementations20 Aug 2021 Naser Damer, Kiran Raja, Marius Süßmilch, Sushma Venkatesh, Fadi Boutros, Meiling Fang, Florian Kirchbuchner, Raghavendra Ramachandra, Arjan Kuijper

Face morphing attacks aim at creating face images that are verifiable to be the face of multiple identities, which can lead to building faulty identity links in operations like border checks.

Face Recognition Generative Adversarial Network

My Eyes Are Up Here: Promoting Focus on Uncovered Regions in Masked Face Recognition

no code implementations2 Aug 2021 Pedro C. Neto, Fadi Boutros, João Ribeiro Pinto, Mohsen Saffari, Naser Damer, Ana F. Sequeira, Jaime S. Cardoso

The recent Covid-19 pandemic and the fact that wearing masks in public is now mandatory in several countries, created challenges in the use of face recognition systems (FRS).

Face Recognition

MixFaceNets: Extremely Efficient Face Recognition Networks

1 code implementation27 Jul 2021 Fadi Boutros, Naser Damer, Meiling Fang, Florian Kirchbuchner, Arjan Kuijper

In this paper, we present a set of extremely efficient and high throughput models for accurate face verification, MixFaceNets which are inspired by Mixed Depthwise Convolutional Kernels.

Face Verification Lightweight Face Recognition

Masked Face Recognition: Human vs. Machine

no code implementations2 Mar 2021 Naser Damer, Fadi Boutros, Marius Süßmilch, Meiling Fang, Florian Kirchbuchner, Arjan Kuijper

This work provides a joint evaluation and in-depth analyses of the face verification performance of human experts in comparison to state-of-the-art automatic FR solutions.

Face Recognition Face Verification

Self-restrained Triplet Loss for Accurate Masked Face Recognition

1 code implementation2 Mar 2021 Fadi Boutros, Naser Damer, Florian Kirchbuchner, Arjan Kuijper

Using the face as a biometric identity trait is motivated by the contactless nature of the capture process and the high accuracy of the recognition algorithms.

Face Recognition

On Benchmarking Iris Recognition within a Head-mounted Display for AR/VR Application

no code implementations20 Oct 2020 Fadi Boutros, Naser Damer, Kiran Raja, Raghavendra Ramachandra, Florian Kirchbuchner, Arjan Kuijper

Motivated by the performance of iris recognition, we also propose the continuous authentication of users in a non-collaborative capture setting in HMD.

Benchmarking Iris Recognition

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