Research Article

MASKED AND UNMASKED FACE RECOGNITION ON UNCONSTRAINED FACIAL IMAGES USING HAND-CRAFTED METHODS

Volume: 26 Number: Özel Sayı December 12, 2023
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MASKED AND UNMASKED FACE RECOGNITION ON UNCONSTRAINED FACIAL IMAGES USING HAND-CRAFTED METHODS

Abstract

In this study, the face recognition task is applied on masked and unmasked faces using hand-crafted methods. Due to COVID-19 and masks, facial identification from unconstrained images became a hot topic. To avoid COVID-19, most people use masks outside. In many cases, typical facial recognition technology is useless. The majority of contemporary advanced face recognition methods are based on deep learning, which primarily relies on a huge number of training examples, however, masked face recognition may be investigated using hand-crafted approaches at a lower computing cost than using deep learning systems. A low-cost system is intended to be constructed for recognizing masked faces and compares its performance to that of face recognition systems that do not use masks. The proposed method fuses hand-crafted methods using feature-level fusion strategy. This study compares the performance of masked and unmasked face recognition systems. The experiments are undertaken on two publicly accessible datasets for masked face recognition: Masked Labeled Faces in the Wild (MLFW) and Cross-Age Labeled Faces in the Wild (CALFW). The best accuracy is achieved as 94.8% on MLFW dataset. The rest of the results on different train and test sets from CALFW and MLFW datasets are encouraging compared to the state-of-the-art models.

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Details

Primary Language

English

Subjects

Computer Vision , Pattern Recognition , Semi- and Unsupervised Learning

Journal Section

Research Article

Authors

Ali Torbatı
0009-0005-5908-5840
Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyeti

Önsen Toygar *
0000-0001-7402-9058
Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyeti

Publication Date

December 12, 2023

Submission Date

August 9, 2023

Acceptance Date

September 25, 2023

Published in Issue

Year 2023 Volume: 26 Number: Özel Sayı

APA
Torbatı, A., & Toygar, Ö. (2023). MASKED AND UNMASKED FACE RECOGNITION ON UNCONSTRAINED FACIAL IMAGES USING HAND-CRAFTED METHODS. Kahramanmaraş Sütçü İmam Üniversitesi Mühendislik Bilimleri Dergisi, 26(Özel Sayı), 1133-1139. https://doi.org/10.17780/ksujes.1339868