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cs.CV2026

Beyond Error-vs-Discard Characteristic: Toward Stable and Reliable Evaluation for Face Image Quality Assessment

Bhavesh Wani, Žiga Babnik, Vitomir Štruc +1

Face Image Quality Assessment (FIQA) aims to estimate the utility of facial images for reliable recognition. The evaluation of FIQA methods is predominantly based on the Error-vers…

cs.CV2026

PreFIQs: Face Image Quality Is What Survives Pruning

Jan Niklas Kolf, Guray Ozgur, Andrea Atzori +4

Face Image Quality Assessment (FIQA) evaluates the utility of a face image for automated face recognition (FR) systems. In this work, we propose PreFIQs, an unsupervised and traini…

cs.CV2026

FunFace: Feature Utility and Norm Estimation for Face Recognition

Žiga Babnik, Fadi Boutros, Naser Damer +3

Face Recognition (FR) is used in a variety of application domains, from entertainment and banking to security and surveillance. Such applications rely on the FR model to be robust…

cs.CV2025

FROQ: Observing Face Recognition Models for Efficient Quality Assessment

Žiga Babnik, Deepak Kumar Jain, Peter Peer +1

Face Recognition (FR) plays a crucial role in many critical (high-stakes) applications, where errors in the recognition process can lead to serious consequences. Face Image Quality…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

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

Žiga Babnik, Fadi Boutros, Naser Damer +2

Face Image Quality Assessment (FIQA) techniques have seen steady improvements over recent years, but their performance still deteriorates if the input face samples are not properly…

cs.CV2023

Optimization-Based Improvement of Face Image Quality Assessment Techniques

Žiga Babnik, Naser Damer, Vitomir Štruc

Contemporary face recognition (FR) models achieve near-ideal recognition performance in constrained settings, yet do not fully translate the performance to unconstrained (realworld…

cs.CV2023

DifFIQA: Face Image Quality Assessment Using Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models

Žiga Babnik, Peter Peer, Vitomir Štruc

Modern face recognition (FR) models excel in constrained scenarios, but often suffer from decreased performance when deployed in unconstrained (real-world) environments due to unce…

cs.CV2022

FaceQAN: Face Image Quality Assessment Through Adversarial Noise Exploration

Žiga Babnik, Peter Peer, Vitomir Štruc

Recent state-of-the-art face recognition (FR) approaches have achieved impressive performance, yet unconstrained face recognition still represents an open problem. Face image quali…

cs.CV2022

Assessing Bias in Face Image Quality Assessment

Žiga Babnik, Vitomir Štruc

Face image quality assessment (FIQA) attempts to improve face recognition (FR) performance by providing additional information about sample quality. Because FIQA methods attempt to…

cs.CV2022

Iterative Optimization of Pseudo Ground-Truth Face Image Quality Labels

Žiga Babnik, Vitomir Štruc

While recent face recognition (FR) systems achieve excellent results in many deployment scenarios, their performance in challenging real-world settings is still under question. For…