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most citedSecond FRCSyn-onGoing: Winning Solutions and Post-Challenge Analysis to Improve Face Recognition with Synthetic Data

17 citations · 43 across the 22 of their papers we have counts for

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23 papers

cs.CV2026

SynThermFace: Amplifying Limited Paired Data for Visible-Thermal Face Recognition via Synthetic Data Generation

Anjith George, Adam Unal, Sebastien Marcel

Face recognition (FR) is a widely used modality for biometric authentication, but conventional models rely on visible-spectrum imagery and degrade when high-quality RGB images cann…

cs.CV2026

LoRA-based Adaptation Alone Is Not Enough: Understanding the Limits of Foundation Models for Face Presentation Attack Detection

Peter Lorenz, Anjith George, Marcel Sébastien

Face presentation attack detection (PAD) aims to reliably detect a wide range of presentation attacks. While PAD methods achieve strong performance within individual datasets, thei…

cs.CV2026

Improving Low-Resolution Face Recognition under Limited Data: How Synthetic Data Generation Can Close the Domain Gap

Luis S. Luevano, Ünsal Öztürk, Hatef Otroshi Shahreza +2

Face Recognition (FR) systems in surveillance settings often encounter Low Resolution (LR) faces, those whose face region falls below the standard 112 112 input size. Whil…

cs.LG2026

Foundation Models for Face Presentation Attack Detection: A Unified Linear-Probing Benchmark

Peter Lorenz, Anjith George, Sébastien Marcel

Face presentation attack detection (PAD) remains challenging under cross-dataset evaluation, where domain shift degrades models trained on a single dataset. The scarcity of large-s…

cs.CV2026

GaitFace: A Multimodal Dataset for Long-Range Person Identification

Alain Komaty, Luis S. Luevano, Vidit Vidit +3

Efficient border control is becoming a significant global challenge, mainly due to severe congestion and extended passenger waiting times. To mitigate these bottlenecks and facilit…

cs.CV2026

DriveFace: A Cross-Spectral Through-Glass Face Dataset for On-the-Move Vehicular Border Control

Anjith George, Luis S. Luevano, Alain Komaty +3

The continuous growth in cross-border mobility places increasing pressure on existing border control infrastructures, motivating on-the-move biometric authentication, in which trav…

cs.CV2026

Lightweight Cross-Spectral Face Recognition via Contrastive Alignment and Distillation

Anjith George, Sebastien Marcel

Heterogeneous Face Recognition (HFR) aims at matching face images captured across different sensing modalities, such as thermal-to-visible or near-infrared-to-visible, enhancing th…

cs.CV2026

Evaluating Multimodal Large Language Models for Heterogeneous Face Recognition

Hatef Otroshi Shahreza, Anjith George, Sébastien Marcel

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have recently demonstrated strong performance on a wide range of vision-language tasks, raising interest in their potential use for biometr…

cs.CV2025

ArtFace: Towards Historical Portrait Face Identification via Model Adaptation

Francois Poh, Anjith George, Sébastien Marcel

Identifying sitters in historical paintings is a key task for art historians, offering insight into their lives and how they chose to be seen. However, the process is often subject…

cs.CV2025

EdgeDoc: Hybrid CNN-Transformer Model for Accurate Forgery Detection and Localization in ID Documents

Anjith George, Sebastien Marcel

The widespread availability of tools for manipulating images and documents has made it increasingly easy to forge digital documents, posing a serious threat to Know Your Customer (…

cs.CV2025

Enhancing Domain Diversity in Synthetic Data Face Recognition with Dataset Fusion

Anjith George, Sebastien Marcel

While the accuracy of face recognition systems has improved significantly in recent years, the datasets used to train these models are often collected through web crawling without…

cs.CV2025

The Invisible Threat: Evaluating the Vulnerability of Cross-Spectral Face Recognition to Presentation Attacks

Anjith George, Sebastien Marcel

Cross-spectral face recognition systems are designed to enhance the performance of facial recognition systems by enabling cross-modal matching under challenging operational conditi…

cs.CV2025

xEdgeFace: Efficient Cross-Spectral Face Recognition for Edge Devices

Anjith George, Sebastien Marcel

Heterogeneous Face Recognition (HFR) addresses the challenge of matching face images across different sensing modalities, such as thermal to visible or near-infrared to visible, ex…

cs.CV2025

Exploring ChatGPT for Face Presentation Attack Detection in Zero and Few-Shot in-Context Learning

Alain Komaty, Hatef Otroshi Shahreza, Anjith George +1

This study highlights the potential of ChatGPT (specifically GPT-4o) as a competitive alternative for Face Presentation Attack Detection (PAD), outperforming several PAD models, in…

cs.CV2024★ 17 cited

Second FRCSyn-onGoing: Winning Solutions and Post-Challenge Analysis to Improve Face Recognition with Synthetic Data

Ivan DeAndres-Tame, Ruben Tolosana, Pietro Melzi +56

Synthetic data is gaining increasing popularity for face recognition technologies, mainly due to the privacy concerns and challenges associated with obtaining real data, including…

cs.CV2024

Face Reconstruction from Face Embeddings using Adapter to a Face Foundation Model

Hatef Otroshi Shahreza, Anjith George, Sébastien Marcel

Face recognition systems extract embedding vectors from face images and use these embeddings to verify or identify individuals. Face reconstruction attack (also known as template i…

cs.CV2024

Digi2Real: Bridging the Realism Gap in Synthetic Data Face Recognition via Foundation Models

Anjith George, Sebastien Marcel

The accuracy of face recognition systems has improved significantly in the past few years, thanks to the large amount of data collected and advancements in neural network architect…

cs.CV2024

Modality Agnostic Heterogeneous Face Recognition with Switch Style Modulators

Anjith George, Sebastien Marcel

Heterogeneous Face Recognition (HFR) systems aim to enhance the capability of face recognition in challenging cross-modal authentication scenarios. However, the significant domain…

cs.CV2024

Heterogeneous Face Recognition Using Domain Invariant Units

Anjith George, Sebastien Marcel

Heterogeneous Face Recognition (HFR) aims to expand the applicability of Face Recognition (FR) systems to challenging scenarios, enabling the matching of face images across differe…

cs.CV2024★ 17 cited

Second Edition FRCSyn Challenge at CVPR 2024: Face Recognition Challenge in the Era of Synthetic Data

Ivan DeAndres-Tame, Ruben Tolosana, Pietro Melzi +55

Synthetic data is gaining increasing relevance for training machine learning models. This is mainly motivated due to several factors such as the lack of real data and intra-class v…

cs.CV2024★ 7 cited

SDFR: Synthetic Data for Face Recognition Competition

Hatef Otroshi Shahreza, Christophe Ecabert, Anjith George +25

Large-scale face recognition datasets are collected by crawling the Internet and without individuals' consent, raising legal, ethical, and privacy concerns. With the recent advance…

cs.CV2024

Model Pairing Using Embedding Translation for Backdoor Attack Detection on Open-Set Classification Tasks

Alexander Unnervik, Hatef Otroshi Shahreza, Anjith George +1

Backdoor attacks allow an attacker to embed a specific vulnerability in a machine learning algorithm, activated when an attacker-chosen pattern is presented, causing a specific mis…

cs.CV2023★ 2 cited

FRCSyn Challenge at WACV 2024:Face Recognition Challenge in the Era of Synthetic Data

Pietro Melzi, Ruben Tolosana, Ruben Vera-Rodriguez +44

Despite the widespread adoption of face recognition technology around the world, and its remarkable performance on current benchmarks, there are still several challenges that must…