Face Identification

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Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28

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Datasets archive 2025-07-28

7 datasets whose archive record lists this task, ordered by the archive's paper count.

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Most implemented papers archive 2025-07-28

30 shown of 46 papers with code (144 tagged with this task in all), ordered by repositories listed in the archive, not by stars (the archive holds no stars, so PwC's “Social” and “Latest” sorts cannot be reproduced). Papers without a page here are shown as plain text.

• FaceNet: A Unified Embedding for Face Recognition and Clustering
  12 Mar 2015 183 repositories listed Syntology ran 65 of 154 samples · 89 unverified · 45 pointer-only (licence)
  On the widely used Labeled Faces in the Wild (LFW) dataset, our system achieves a new record accuracy of 99.
• ArcFace: Additive Angular Margin Loss for Deep Face Recognition
  23 Jan 2018 100 repositories listed Syntology ran 16 of 21 samples · 5 unverified · 14 pointer-only (licence)
  Recently, a popular line of research in face recognition is adopting margins in the well-established softmax loss function to maximize class separability.
• SphereFace: Deep Hypersphere Embedding for Face Recognition
  26 Apr 2017 22 repositories listed Syntology ran 1 of 2 samples · 1 unverified · 1 pointer-only (licence)
  This paper addresses deep face recognition (FR) problem under open-set protocol, where ideal face features are expected to have smaller maximal intra-class distance than minimal inter-class distance under a suitably…
• A Light CNN for Deep Face Representation with Noisy Labels
  9 Nov 2015 19 repositories listed Syntology ran 2 of 2 samples · 0 unverified · 1 pointer-only (licence)
  This paper presents a Light CNN framework to learn a compact embedding on the large-scale face data with massive noisy labels.
• Network In Network
  16 Dec 2013 17 repositories listed Syntology ran 1 of 7 samples · 6 unverified · 1 pointer-only (licence)
  With enhanced local modeling via the micro network, we are able to utilize global average pooling over feature maps in the classification layer, which is easier to interpret and less prone to overfitting than…
• CosFace: Large Margin Cosine Loss for Deep Face Recognition
  29 Jan 2018 11 repositories listed Syntology ran 1 of 2 samples · 1 unverified · 2 pointer-only (licence)
  The central task of face recognition, including face verification and identification, involves face feature discrimination.
• DeepID3: Face Recognition with Very Deep Neural Networks
  3 Feb 2015 9 repositories listed
  Very deep neural networks recently achieved great success on general object recognition because of their superb learning capacity.
• GhostFaceNets: Lightweight Face Recognition Model From Cheap Operations
  10 Apr 2023 7 repositories listed
  The development of deep learning-based biometric models that can be deployed on devices with constrained memory and computational resources has proven to be a significant challenge.
• Partial FC: Training 10 Million Identities on a Single Machine
  11 Oct 2020 7 repositories listed
  The experiment demonstrates no loss of accuracy when training with only 10\% randomly sampled classes for the softmax-based loss functions, compared with training with full classes using state-of-the-art models on…
• Deep Polynomial Neural Networks
  20 Jun 2020 5 repositories listed
  We introduce three tensor decompositions that significantly reduce the number of parameters and show how they can be efficiently implemented by hierarchical neural networks.
• Editable Neural Networks
  1 Apr 2020 5 repositories listed Syntology ran 1 of 17 samples · 16 unverified · 1 pointer-only (licence)
  We empirically demonstrate the effectiveness of this method on large-scale image classification and machine translation tasks.
• FacePoseNet: Making a Case for Landmark-Free Face Alignment
  24 Aug 2017 5 repositories listed
  Instead, we compare our FPN with existing methods by evaluating how they affect face recognition accuracy on the IJB-A and IJB-B benchmarks: using the same recognition pipeline, but varying the face alignment method.
• GroupFace: Learning Latent Groups and Constructing Group-based Representations for Face Recognition
  21 May 2020 4 repositories listed
  In the field of face recognition, a model learns to distinguish millions of face images with fewer dimensional embedding features, and such vast information may not be properly encoded in the conventional model with a…
• Deep Learning Face Representation from Predicting 10,000 Classes
  1 Jan 2014 4 repositories listed
  When learned as classifiers to recognize about 10, 000 face identities in the training set and configured to keep reducing the neuron numbers along the feature extraction hierarchy, these deep ConvNets gradually form…
• LAD-RCNN:A Powerful Tool for Livestock Face Detection and Normalization
  31 Oct 2022 3 repositories listed
  However, there is no study on normalizing of the animal face image with arbitrary directions.
• VarGFaceNet: An Efficient Variable Group Convolutional Neural Network for Lightweight Face Recognition
  11 Oct 2019 3 repositories listed
  To improve the discriminative and generalization ability of lightweight network for face recognition, we propose an efficient variable group convolutional network called VarGFaceNet.
• Deep Learning Face Representation by Joint Identification-Verification
  18 Jun 2014 3 repositories listed
  The learned DeepID2 features can be well generalized to new identities unseen in the training data.
• Large Scale Correlation Clustering Optimization
  13 Dec 2011 3 repositories listed
  This analogy allows us to suggest several new optimization algorithms, which exploit the intrinsic "model-selection" capability of the functional to automatically recover the underlying number of clusters.
• ProxyFusion: Face Feature Aggregation Through Sparse Experts
  24 Sep 2025 2 repositories listed
  Existing methods often rely on large intermediate feature maps or face metadata information, making them incompatible with legacy biometric template databases that store pre-computed features.
• PetFace: A Large-Scale Dataset and Benchmark for Animal Identification
  18 Jul 2024 2 repositories listed
  In this paper, we introduce the PetFace dataset, a comprehensive resource for animal face identification encompassing 257, 484 unique individuals across 13 animal families and 319 breed categories, including both…
• Learning Unified Representations for Multi-Resolution Face Recognition
  14 Oct 2023 2 repositories listed
  As per the input, a resolution-specific BNet is used and the output are implanted as feature maps in the feature pyramid of TNet, at a layer with the same resolution.
• Rethinking Bias Mitigation: Fairer Architectures Make for Fairer Face Recognition
  18 Oct 2022 2 repositories listed Syntology ran 3 of 3 samples · 0 unverified · 3 pointer-only (licence)
  Our search outputs a suite of models which Pareto-dominate all other high-performance architectures and existing bias mitigation methods in terms of accuracy and fairness, often by large margins, on the two most widely…
• Classifying emotions and engagement in online learning based on a single facial expression recognition neural network
  4 Jul 2022 2 repositories listed
  It is shown that the resulting facial features can be used for fast simultaneous prediction of students’ engagement levels (from disengaged to highly engaged), individual emotions (happy, sad, etc.,) and group-level…
• Unified Negative Pair Generation toward Well-discriminative Feature Space for Face Recognition
  22 Mar 2022 2 repositories listed Syntology ran 2 of 14 samples · 12 unverified
  The goal of face recognition (FR) can be viewed as a pair similarity optimization problem, maximizing a similarity set 𝒮ᵖ over positive pairs, while minimizing similarity set 𝒮ⁿ over negative pairs.
• Facial expression and attributes recognition based on multi-task learning of lightweight neural networks
  31 Mar 2021 2 repositories listed
  Moreover, it is shown that the usage of our neural network as a feature extractor of facial regions in video frames and concatenation of several statistical functions (mean, max, etc.)
• Facial expression and attributes recognition based on multi-task learning of lightweight neural networks
  31 Mar 2021 2 repositories listed
  In this paper, the multi-task learning of lightweight convolutional neural networks is studied for face identification and classification of facial attributes (age, gender, ethnicity) trained on cropped faces without…
• CamPro: Camera-based Anti-Facial Recognition
  30 Dec 2023 1 repository listed
  The proliferation of images captured from millions of cameras and the advancement of facial recognition (FR) technology have made the abuse of FR a severe privacy threat.
• Fast and Interpretable Face Identification for Out-Of-Distribution Data Using Vision Transformers
  6 Nov 2023 1 repository listed
  DeepFace-EMD (Phan et al.
• Open-Set Face Identification on Few-Shot Gallery by Fine-Tuning
  5 Jan 2023 1 repository listed
  In this paper, we focus on addressing the open-set face identification problem on a few-shot gallery by fine-tuning.
• Histogram of Oriented Gradients Meet Deep Learning: A Novel Multi-task Deep Network for Medical Image Semantic Segmentation
  2 Apr 2022 1 repository listed
  We employed our method on two powerful and widely used semantic segmentation networks: UNet and U2Net to train in a multi-task setup.

Syntology lines on 9 of the papers shown; no Syntology record for the others (a paper without an arXiv id cannot be joined to the graph, and absence from the graph layer is not a recorded non-run). “Ran” means the sample executed on a synthesized fixture, not that the paper's result was reproduced. Read from the graph 2026-09-24.