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The Effect of Wearing a Mask on Face Recognition Performance: an Exploratory Study
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2020
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Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V.
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Face recognition has become essential in our daily lives as a convenient and contactless
method of accurate identity verification. Process such as identity verification at automatic border
control gates or the secure login to electronic devices are increasingly dependant on such technologies.
The recent COVID-19 pandemic have increased the value of hygienic and contactless identity
verification. However, the pandemic led to the wide use of face masks, essential to keep the pandemic
under control. The effect of wearing a mask on face recognition in a collaborative environment is
currently sensitive yet understudied issue. We address that by presenting a specifically collected
database containing three session, each with three different capture instructions, to simulate realistic
use cases.We further study the effect of masked face probes on the behaviour of three top-performing
face recognition systems, two academic solutions and one commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) system.