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A-LINK: Recognizing Disguised Faces via Active Learning based Inter-Domain Knowledge

23 Sep 2019IEEE International Conference on Biometrics: Theory, Applications and Systems (BTAS), 2019 2019 9archive 2025-07-28

Anshuman Suri, Mayank Vatsa, Richa Singh

Recent advancements in deep learning have significantly increased the capabilities of face recognition. However, face recognition in an unconstrained environment is still an active research challenge. Covariates such as pose and low resolution have received significant attention, but “disguise” is considered an onerous covariate of face recognition. One primary reason for this is the unavailability of large and representative databases. To address the problem of recognizing disguised faces, we propose an active learning framework A-LINK, that intelligently selects training samples from the target domain data, such that the decision boundary does not overfit to a particular set of variations, and better generalizes to encode variability. The framework further applies domain adaptation with the actively selected training samples to fine-tune the network. We demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed framework on DFW and Multi-PIE datasets with state-of-the-art models such as LCSSE and DenseNet.

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Active LearningDomain AdaptationFace RecognitionHeterogeneous Face Recognition

Results from the paper archive 2025-07-28

TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Heterogeneous Face Recognition CMU-MPIE A-LINK 16x16 Accuracy 92.4 #1 of 1 Archive leaderboard report
Heterogeneous Face Recognition CMU-MPIE A-LINK 24x24 Accuracy 92.6 #1 of 1 Archive leaderboard report
Heterogeneous Face Recognition CMU-MPIE A-LINK 32x32 Accuracy 92.8 #1 of 1 Archive leaderboard report
Heterogeneous Face Recognition CMU-MPIE A-LINK 48x48 Accuracy 92.9 #1 of 1 Archive leaderboard report
Heterogeneous Face Recognition Disguised Faces in the Wild A-LINK GAR @0.1% FAR Impersonation 75.38 #1 of 2 Archive leaderboard report
Heterogeneous Face Recognition Disguised Faces in the Wild A-LINK GAR @0.1% FAR Obfuscation 72.13 #1 of 2 Archive leaderboard report
Heterogeneous Face Recognition Disguised Faces in the Wild A-LINK GAR @0.1% FAR Overall 72.72 #1 of 2 Archive leaderboard report
Heterogeneous Face Recognition Disguised Faces in the Wild A-LINK GAR @1% FAR Impersonation 95.73 #1 of 2 Archive leaderboard report
Heterogeneous Face Recognition Disguised Faces in the Wild A-LINK GAR @1% FAR Obfuscation 88.97 #1 of 2 Archive leaderboard report
Heterogeneous Face Recognition Disguised Faces in the Wild A-LINK GAR @1% FAR Overall 89.3 #1 of 2 Archive leaderboard report

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Methods

1x1 ConvolutionAverage PoolingBatch NormalizationConcatenated Skip ConnectionConvolutionDense BlockDense ConnectionsDropoutGlobal Average PoolingKaiming InitializationMax PoolingReLUSoftmax

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