Summary of Oodface: Benchmarking Robustness Of Face Recognition Under Common Corruptions and Appearance Variations, by Caixin Kang et al.
OODFace: Benchmarking Robustness of Face Recognition under Common Corruptions and Appearance Variations
by Caixin Kang, Yubo Chen, Shouwei Ruan, Shiji Zhao, Ruochen Zhang, Jiayi Wang, Shan Fu, Xingxing Wei
First submitted to arxiv on: 3 Dec 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Cryptography and Security (cs.CR); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper addresses the concern about the reliability of existing facial recognition models by introducing OODFace, a framework that explores Out-of-Distribution (OOD) challenges faced by these models. The authors design 30 OOD scenarios across 9 categories and simulate these challenges on public datasets to establish three robustness benchmarks: LFW-C/V, CFP-FP-C/V, and YTF-C/V. They then conduct extensive experiments on 19 facial recognition models, 3 commercial APIs, and various defense strategies to assess their robustness. The results highlight the vulnerability of facial recognition systems to OOD data, suggesting possible solutions. The authors also provide a unified toolkit for future improvements in facial recognition model robustness. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper looks at how well facial recognition technology works when it’s shown weird or unexpected pictures. Facial recognition is like a superpower that can identify people from their faces, but what happens if the picture is blurry, has sunglasses on, or even a mask? The researchers created special tests to see how different facial recognition models and apps do in these situations. They found that most of them don’t work very well when the pictures are weird, which is a problem because it could lead to mistakes or inaccuracies. To help fix this issue, they’re sharing their test results and tools so others can use them to make better facial recognition technology. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Mask
