{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/docface-matching-id-document-photos-to","title":"DocFace: Matching ID Document Photos to Selfies","arxiv_id":"1805.02283","date":"2018-05-06","proceeding":null,"authors":["Yichun Shi","Anil K. Jain"],"abstract":"Numerous activities in our daily life, including transactions, access to\nservices and transportation, require us to verify who we are by showing our ID\ndocuments containing face images, e.g. passports and driver licenses. An\nautomatic system for matching ID document photos to live face images in real\ntime with high accuracy would speedup the verification process and remove the\nburden on human operators. In this paper, by employing the transfer learning\ntechnique, we propose a new method, DocFace, to train a domain-specific network\nfor ID document photo matching without a large dataset. Compared with the\nbaseline of applying existing methods for general face recognition to this\nproblem, our method achieves considerable improvement. A cross validation on an\nID-Selfie dataset shows that DocFace improves the TAR from 61.14% to 92.77% at\nFAR=0.1%. Experimental results also indicate that given more training data, a\nviable system for automatic ID document photo matching can be developed and\ndeployed.","url_abs":"http://arxiv.org/abs/1805.02283v1","url_pdf":"http://arxiv.org/pdf/1805.02283v1.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"docface-matching-id-document-photos-to","repo_url":"https://github.com/seasonSH/DocFace","is_official":0,"mentioned_in_paper":0,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"tf","reach":null}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"face-recognition","task_name":"Face Recognition"},{"task_slug":"tar","task_name":"TAR"},{"task_slug":"transfer-learning","task_name":"Transfer Learning"}],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}