Search Results for author: Christian Rathgeb

Found 46 papers, 6 papers with code

Double Trouble? Impact and Detection of Duplicates in Face Image Datasets

1 code implementation25 Jan 2024 Torsten Schlett, Christian Rathgeb, Juan Tapia, Christoph Busch

Additional steps based on face recognition and face image quality assessment models reduce false positives, and facilitate the deduplication of the face images both for intra- and inter-subject duplicate sets.

Face Image Quality Face Image Quality Assessment +1

TetraLoss: Improving the Robustness of Face Recognition against Morphing Attacks

no code implementations21 Jan 2024 Mathias Ibsen, Lázaro J. González-Soler, Christian Rathgeb, Christoph Busch

Face recognition systems are widely deployed in high-security applications such as for biometric verification at border controls.

Face Recognition

General Framework to Evaluate Unlinkability in Biometric Template Protection Systems

no code implementations8 Nov 2023 Marta Gomez-Barrero, Javier Galbally, Christian Rathgeb, Christoph Busch

The wide deployment of biometric recognition systems in the last two decades has raised privacy concerns regarding the storage and use of biometric data.

Reversing Deep Face Embeddings with Probable Privacy Protection

no code implementations4 Oct 2023 Daile Osorio-Roig, Paul A. Gerlitz, Christian Rathgeb, Christoph Busch

Generally, privacy-enhancing face recognition systems are designed to offer permanent protection of face embeddings.

Face Recognition Image Reconstruction

NeutrEx: A 3D Quality Component Measure on Facial Expression Neutrality

no code implementations19 Aug 2023 Marcel Grimmer, Christian Rathgeb, Raymond Veldhuis, Christoph Busch

Accurate face recognition systems are increasingly important in sensitive applications like border control or migration management.

3D Face Reconstruction Face Recognition +1

Benchmarking fixed-length Fingerprint Representations across different Embedding Sizes and Sensor Types

no code implementations17 Jul 2023 Tim Rohwedder, Daile Osorio-Roig, Christian Rathgeb, Christoph Busch

We also study the impact in terms of recognition performance of the fingerprint textural information for two sensor types, i. e. optical and capacitive.

Benchmarking

GANDiffFace: Controllable Generation of Synthetic Datasets for Face Recognition with Realistic Variations

no code implementations31 May 2023 Pietro Melzi, Christian Rathgeb, Ruben Tolosana, Ruben Vera-Rodriguez, Dominik Lawatsch, Florian Domin, Maxim Schaubert

We generate multiple synthetic datasets by changing GANDiffFace settings, and compare their mated and non-mated score distributions with the distributions provided by popular real-world datasets for face recognition, i. e. VGG2 and IJB-C. Our results show the feasibility of the proposed GANDiffFace, in particular the use of Diffusion models to enhance the (limited) intra-class variations provided by GANs towards the level of real-world datasets.

Face Recognition

MCLFIQ: Mobile Contactless Fingerprint Image Quality

no code implementations27 Apr 2023 Jannis Priesnitz, Axel Weißenfeld, Laurenz Ruzicka, Christian Rathgeb, Bernhard Strobl, Ralph Lessmann, Christoph Busch

In experiments, the MCLFIQ method is compared against the original NFIQ 2. 2 method, a sharpness-based quality assessment algorithm developed for contactless fingerprint images \rev{and the general purpose image quality assessment method BRISQUE.

Image Quality Assessment

Child Face Recognition at Scale: Synthetic Data Generation and Performance Benchmark

1 code implementation23 Apr 2023 Magnus Falkenberg, Anders Bensen Ottsen, Mathias Ibsen, Christian Rathgeb

To this end, we proposed a processing pipeline that initially utilizes StyleGAN3 to sample adult subjects, which are subsequently progressed to children of varying ages using InterFaceGAN.

Face Recognition Synthetic Data Generation

Considerations on the Evaluation of Biometric Quality Assessment Algorithms

1 code implementation23 Mar 2023 Torsten Schlett, Christian Rathgeb, Juan Tapia, Christoph Busch

Additionally, a discard fraction limit or range must be selected to compute pAUC values, which can then be used to quantitatively rank quality assessment algorithms.

Face Image Quality Face Image Quality Assessment +1

Deep Learning in the Field of Biometric Template Protection: An Overview

no code implementations5 Mar 2023 Christian Rathgeb, Jascha Kolberg, Andreas Uhl, Christoph Busch

Biometric systems utilising deep learning have been shown to achieve auspicious recognition accuracy, surpassing human performance.

Fairness Privacy Preserving

Effect of Lossy Compression Algorithms on Face Image Quality and Recognition

no code implementations24 Feb 2023 Torsten Schlett, Sebastian Schachner, Christian Rathgeb, Juan Tapia, Christoph Busch

This work investigates the effect of lossy image compression on a state-of-the-art face recognition model, and on multiple face image quality assessment models.

Face Image Quality Face Image Quality Assessment +2

Multi-Biometric Fuzzy Vault based on Face and Fingerprints

no code implementations17 Jan 2023 Christian Rathgeb, Benjamin Tams, Johannes Merkle, Vanessa Nesterowicz, Ulrike Korte, Matthias Neu

The fuzzy vault scheme has been established as cryptographic primitive suitable for privacy-preserving biometric authentication.

Privacy Preserving

State of the Art of Quality Assessment of Facial Images

no code implementations15 Nov 2022 Johannes Merkle, Christian Rathgeb, Benjamin Tams, Dhay-Parn Lou, André Dörsch, Pawel Drozdowski

The goal of the project "Facial Metrics for EES" is to develop, implement and publish an open source algorithm for the quality assessment of facial images (OFIQ) for face recognition, in particular for border control scenarios. 1 In order to stimulate the harmonization of the requirements and practices applied for QA for facial images, the insights gained and algorithms developed in the project will be contributed to the current (2022) revision of the ISO/IEC 29794-5 standard.

Face Recognition

An Overview of Privacy-enhancing Technologies in Biometric Recognition

no code implementations21 Jun 2022 Pietro Melzi, Christian Rathgeb, Ruben Tolosana, Ruben Vera-Rodriguez, Christoph Busch

Privacy-enhancing technologies are technologies that implement fundamental data protection principles.

Fun Selfie Filters in Face Recognition: Impact Assessment and Removal

no code implementations12 Feb 2022 Cristian Botezatu, Mathias Ibsen, Christian Rathgeb, Christoph Busch

This work investigates the impact of fun selfie filters, which are frequently used to modify selfies, on face recognition systems.

Face Detection Face Recognition

Face Beneath the Ink: Synthetic Data and Tattoo Removal with Application to Face Recognition

no code implementations10 Feb 2022 Mathias Ibsen, Christian Rathgeb, Pawel Drozdowski, Christoph Busch

Moreover, we demonstrate the feasibility of the generation by using a deep learning-based model for removing tattoos from face images.

Face Recognition

Crowd-powered Face Manipulation Detection: Fusing Human Examiner Decisions

no code implementations31 Jan 2022 Christian Rathgeb, Robert Nichols, Mathias Ibsen, Pawel Drozdowski, Christoph Busch

To this end, various decision fusion methods are proposed incorporating the examiners' decision confidence, experience level, and their time to take a decision.

Face Swapping Image Manipulation +1

Psychophysical Evaluation of Human Performance in Detecting Digital Face Image Manipulations

no code implementations28 Jan 2022 Robert Nichols, Christian Rathgeb, Pawel Drozdowski, Christoph Busch

In recent years, increasing deployment of face recognition technology in security-critical settings, such as border control or law enforcement, has led to considerable interest in the vulnerability of face recognition systems to attacks utilising legitimate documents, which are issued on the basis of digitally manipulated face images.

Face Recognition Face Swapping

Reliable Detection of Doppelgängers based on Deep Face Representations

no code implementations21 Jan 2022 Christian Rathgeb, Daniel Fischer, Pawel Drozdowski, Christoph Busch

Doppelg\"angers (or lookalikes) usually yield an increased probability of false matches in a facial recognition system, as opposed to random face image pairs selected for non-mated comparison trials.

Face Recognition

An Attack on Facial Soft-biometric Privacy Enhancement

no code implementations24 Nov 2021 Dailé Osorio-Roig, Christian Rathgeb, Pawel Drozdowski, Philipp Terhörst, Vitomir Štruc, Christoph Busch

Future works on privacy-enhancing face recognition are encouraged to include the proposed attack in evaluations on the privacy protection.

Attribute Dimensionality Reduction +1

SynCoLFinGer: Synthetic Contactless Fingerprint Generator

no code implementations18 Oct 2021 Jannis Priesnitz, Christian Rathgeb, Nicolas Buchmann, Christoph Busch

We present the first method for synthetic generation of contactless fingerprint images, referred to as SynCoLFinGer.

Differential Anomaly Detection for Facial Images

no code implementations7 Oct 2021 Mathias Ibsen, Lázaro J. González-Soler, Christian Rathgeb, Pawel Drozdowski, Marta Gomez-Barrero, Christoph Busch

Due to their convenience and high accuracy, face recognition systems are widely employed in governmental and personal security applications to automatically recognise individuals.

Anomaly Detection Face Recognition +1

Demographic Fairness in Face Identification: The Watchlist Imbalance Effect

no code implementations15 Jun 2021 Pawel Drozdowski, Christian Rathgeb, Christoph Busch

Recently, different researchers have found that the gallery composition of a face database can induce performance differentials to facial identification systems in which a probe image is compared against up to all stored reference images to reach a biometric decision.

Face Identification Face Recognition +2

Demographic Fairness in Biometric Systems: What do the Experts say?

no code implementations31 May 2021 Christian Rathgeb, Pawel Drozdowski, Naser Damer, Dinusha C. Frings, Christoph Busch

Algorithmic decision systems have frequently been labelled as "biased", "racist", "sexist", or "unfair" by numerous media outlets, organisations, and researchers.

Fairness Management

Impact of Facial Tattoos and Paintings on Face Recognition Systems

no code implementations17 Mar 2021 Mathias Ibsen, Christian Rathgeb, Thomas Fink, Pawel Drozdowski, Christoph Busch

In this work, we investigate the impact that facial tattoos and paintings have on current face recognition systems.

Face Recognition

Effects of Image Compression on Face Image Manipulation Detection: A Case Study on Facial Retouching

no code implementations5 Mar 2021 Christian Rathgeb, Kevin Bernardo, Nathania E. Haryanto, Christoph Busch

Results obtained from challenging cross-database experiments in which the analyzed retouching technique is unknown during training yield interesting findings: (1) most competitive detection performance is achieved for differential scenarios employing deep face representations; (2) image compression severely impacts the performance of face image manipulation detection schemes based on texture descriptors while methods utilizing deep face representations are found to be highly robust; (3) in some cases, the application of image compression might as well improve detection performance.

Image Compression Image Manipulation +1

Signal-level Fusion for Indexing and Retrieval of Facial Biometric Data

no code implementations5 Mar 2021 Pawel Drozdowski, Fabian Stockhardt, Christian Rathgeb, Christoph Busch

The growing scope, scale, and number of biometric deployments around the world emphasise the need for research into technologies facilitating efficient and reliable biometric identification queries.

Retrieval

Mobile Touchless Fingerprint Recognition: Implementation, Performance and Usability Aspects

1 code implementation4 Mar 2021 Jannis Priesnitz, Rolf Huesmann, Christian Rathgeb, Nicolas Buchmann, Christoph Busch

We provide a comprehensive description of the entire recognition pipeline and discuss important requirements for a fully automated capturing system.

Deep Face Fuzzy Vault: Implementation and Performance

no code implementations4 Feb 2021 Christian Rathgeb, Johannes Merkle, Johanna Scholz, Benjamin Tams, Vanessa Nesterowicz

As part of said feature transformation, a detailed analysis of different feature quantisation and binarisation techniques is conducted.

Face Recognition Management +2

Face Image Quality Assessment: A Literature Survey

no code implementations2 Sep 2020 Torsten Schlett, Christian Rathgeb, Olaf Henniger, Javier Galbally, Julian Fierrez, Christoph Busch

The performance of face analysis and recognition systems depends on the quality of the acquired face data, which is influenced by numerous factors.

Face Image Quality Face Image Quality Assessment +1

Deep Learning-based Single Image Face Depth Data Enhancement

no code implementations19 Jun 2020 Torsten Schlett, Christian Rathgeb, Christoph Busch

All tested enhancer types exclusively use depth data as input, which differs from methods that enhance depth based on additional input data such as visible light color images.

Face Recognition

Detection of Makeup Presentation Attacks based on Deep Face Representations

no code implementations9 Jun 2020 Christian Rathgeb, Pawel Drozdowski, Christoph Busch

Facial cosmetics have the ability to substantially alter the facial appearance, which can negatively affect the decisions of a face recognition.

Face Recognition Facial Makeup Transfer +1

Deep Face Representations for Differential Morphing Attack Detection

no code implementations5 Jan 2020 Ulrich Scherhag, Christian Rathgeb, Johannes Merkle, Christoph Busch

In addition, the application of deep face representations for differential morphing attack detection algorithms is investigated.

Cryptography and Security

Sex-Prediction from Periocular Images across Multiple Sensors and Spectra

no code implementations1 May 2019 Juan Tapia, Christian Rathgeb, Christoph Busch

In this paper, we provide a comprehensive analysis of periocular-based sex-prediction (commonly referred to as gender classification) using state-of-the-art machine learning techniques.

Classification Gender Classification +1

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