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most citedGendered Differences in Face Recognition Accuracy Explained by Hairstyles, Makeup, and Facial Morphology

56 citations · 58 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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cs.CV2026

Rank-1 Identity Consensus Predicts Gallery Enrollment in 1:N Face Matching More Accurately than Score Thresholding

Gabriella Pangelinan, Aman Bhatta, Michael C. King +1

In operational 1:N face identification, a crucial question arises for each probe: is this person enrolled in the gallery or not? The stakes are high and asymmetric. Rejecting a mat…

cs.CV2026

What Happens to Accuracy When Photo Lineups Contain Non-Mated Rank-One Images From Large Galleries?

Genesis Argueta, Kevin W. Bowyer, Michael King +1

One-to-many facial identification is commonly used to match a probe image from surveillance video against a gallery of driver's license and/or booking photos. The algorithm's rank-…

cs.CV2025

Are you In or Out (of gallery)? Wisdom from the Same-Identity Crowd

Aman Bhatta, Maria Dhakal, Michael C. King +1

A central problem in one-to-many facial identification is that the person in the probe image may or may not have enrolled image(s) in the gallery; that is, may be In-gallery or Out…

cs.CV2025

Deep CNN Face Matchers Inherently Support Revocable Biometric Templates

Aman Bhatta, Michael C. King, Kevin W. Bowyer

One common critique of biometric authentication is that if an individual's biometric is compromised, then the individual has no recourse. The concept of revocable biometrics was de…

cs.CV2025

Peepers & Pixels: Human Recognition Accuracy on Low Resolution Faces

Xavier Merino, Gabriella Pangelinan, Samuel Langborgh +2

Automated one-to-many (1:N) face recognition is a powerful investigative tool commonly used by law enforcement agencies. In this context, potential matches resulting from automated…

cs.CV2025

Lights, Camera, Matching: The Role of Image Illumination in Fair Face Recognition

Gabriella Pangelinan, Grace Bezold, Haiyu Wu +2

Facial brightness is a key image quality factor impacting face recognition accuracy differentials across demographic groups. In this work, we aim to decrease the accuracy gap betwe…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

Impact of Sunglasses on One-to-Many Facial Identification Accuracy

Sicong Tian, Haiyu Wu, Michael C. King +1

One-to-many facial identification is documented to achieve high accuracy in the case where both the probe and the gallery are "mugshot quality" images. However, an increasing numbe…

cs.CV2024

Goldilocks Test Sets for Face Verification

Haiyu Wu, Sicong Tian, Aman Bhatta +6

Reported face verification accuracy has reached a plateau on current well-known test sets. As a result, some difficult test sets have been assembled by reducing the image quality o…

cs.CV2023

Analysis of Adversarial Image Manipulations

Ahsi Lo, Gabriella Pangelinan, Michael C. King

As virtual and physical identity grow increasingly intertwined, the importance of privacy and security in the online sphere becomes paramount. In recent years, multiple news storie…

cs.CV2023

Exploring Causes of Demographic Variations In Face Recognition Accuracy

Gabriella Pangelinan, K. S. Krishnapriya, Vitor Albiero +5

In recent years, media reports have called out bias and racism in face recognition technology. We review experimental results exploring several speculated causes for asymmetric cro…

cs.CV2022

The Gender Gap in Face Recognition Accuracy Is a Hairy Problem

Aman Bhatta, Vítor Albiero, Kevin W. Bowyer +1

It is broadly accepted that there is a "gender gap" in face recognition accuracy, with females having higher false match and false non-match rates. However, relatively little is kn…

cs.CV2022★ 1 cited

Face Recognition Accuracy Across Demographics: Shining a Light Into the Problem

Haiyu Wu, Vítor Albiero, K. S. Krishnapriya +2

We explore varying face recognition accuracy across demographic groups as a phenomenon partly caused by differences in face illumination. We observe that for a common operational s…

cs.CV2021★ 56 cited

Gendered Differences in Face Recognition Accuracy Explained by Hairstyles, Makeup, and Facial Morphology

Vítor Albiero, Kai Zhang, Michael C. King +1

Media reports have accused face recognition of being ''biased'', ''sexist'' and ''racist''. There is consensus in the research literature that face recognition accuracy is lower fo…