Face Image Quality Assessment

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Most implemented papers archive 2025-07-28

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• Deep Learning-based Compression Detection for explainable Face Image Quality Assessment
  7 Jan 2025 2 repositories listed
  Subsequently, the PSNR and SSIM metrics are employed to obtain training labels based on which neural networks are trained using a single network to detect JPEG and JPEG 2000 artefacts, respectively.
• DSL-FIQA: Assessing Facial Image Quality via Dual-Set Degradation Learning and Landmark-Guided Transformer
  13 Jun 2024 1 repository listed
  Generic Face Image Quality Assessment (GFIQA) evaluates the perceptual quality of facial images, which is crucial in improving image restoration algorithms and selecting high-quality face images for downstream tasks.
• Dual-Branch Network for Portrait Image Quality Assessment
  14 May 2024 1 repository listed
  We employ the fidelity loss to train the model via a learning-to-rank manner to mitigate inconsistencies in quality scores in the portrait image quality assessment dataset PIQ.
• GraFIQs: Face Image Quality Assessment Using Gradient Magnitudes
  18 Apr 2024 1 repository listed
  We propose in this work a novel approach to assess the quality of face images based on inspecting the required changes in the pre-trained FR model weights to minimize differences between testing samples and the…
• AI-KD: Towards Alignment Invariant Face Image Quality Assessment Using Knowledge Distillation
  15 Apr 2024 1 repository listed
  To address this problem, we present in this paper a novel knowledge distillation approach, termed AI-KD that can extend on any existing FIQA technique, improving its robustness to alignment variations and, in turn,…
• IG-FIQA: Improving Face Image Quality Assessment through Intra-class Variance Guidance robust to Inaccurate Pseudo-Labels
  13 Mar 2024 1 repository listed
  In the realm of face image quality assesment (FIQA), method based on sample relative classification have shown impressive performance.
• Pairwise Comparisons Are All You Need
  13 Mar 2024 1 repository listed
  Blind image quality assessment (BIQA) approaches, while promising for automating image quality evaluation, often fall short in real-world scenarios due to their reliance on a generic quality standard applied uniformly…
• eDifFIQA: Towards Efficient Face Image Quality Assessment Based On Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models
  12 Mar 2024 1 repository listed
  For this reason, Face Image Quality Assessment (FIQA) techniques are often used by FR systems, to provide quality estimates of captured face samples.
• Generalized Portrait Quality Assessment
  14 Feb 2024 1 repository listed
  Automated and robust portrait quality assessment (PQA) is of paramount importance in high-impact applications such as smartphone photography.
• Double Trouble? Impact and Detection of Duplicates in Face Image Datasets
  25 Jan 2024 1 repository listed
  Additional steps based on face recognition and face image quality assessment models reduce false positives, and facilitate the deduplication of the face images both for intra- and inter-subject duplicate sets.
• CLIB-FIQA: Face Image Quality Assessment with Confidence Calibration
  1 Jan 2024 1 repository listed
  Furthermore to alleviate the issue of the model placing excessive trust in inaccurate quality anchors we propose a confidence calibration method to correct the quality distribution by exploiting to the fullest extent of…
• Robust Sclera Segmentation for Skin-tone Agnostic Face Image Quality Assessment
  22 Dec 2023 1 repository listed
  Face image quality assessment (FIQA) is crucial for obtaining good face recognition performance.
• Optimization-Based Improvement of Face Image Quality Assessment Techniques
  24 May 2023 1 repository listed
  To help improve the performance and stability of FR systems in such unconstrained settings, face image quality assessment (FIQA) techniques try to infer sample-quality information from the input face images that can aid…
• DifFIQA: Face Image Quality Assessment Using Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models
  9 May 2023 1 repository listed
  In this paper, we present a powerful new FIQA approach, named DifFIQA, which relies on denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DDPM) and ensures highly competitive results.
• Considerations on the Evaluation of Biometric Quality Assessment Algorithms
  23 Mar 2023 1 repository listed
  Additionally, a discard fraction limit or range must be selected to compute pAUC values, which can then be used to quantitatively rank quality assessment algorithms.
• Pose Impact Estimation on Face Recognition using 3D-Aware Synthetic Data with Application to Quality Assessment
  1 Mar 2023 1 repository listed
  Evaluating the quality of facial images is essential for operating face recognition systems with sufficient accuracy.
• Troubleshooting Ethnic Quality Bias with Curriculum Domain Adaptation for Face Image Quality Assessment
  1 Jan 2023 1 repository listed
  Furthermore, we design an easy-to-hard training scheduler based on the inter-domain uncertainty and intra-domain quality margin as well as the ranking-based domain adversarial network to enhance the effectiveness of…
• FaceQAN: Face Image Quality Assessment Through Adversarial Noise Exploration
  5 Dec 2022 1 repository listed
  In this paper, we propose a novel approach to face image quality assessment, called FaceQAN, that is based on adversarial examples and relies on the analysis of adversarial noise which can be calculated with any FR…
• IFQA: Interpretable Face Quality Assessment
  14 Nov 2022 1 repository listed
  Existing face restoration models have relied on general assessment metrics that do not consider the characteristics of facial regions.
• FaceQgen: Semi-Supervised Deep Learning for Face Image Quality Assessment
  3 Jan 2022 1 repository listed
  This comparison shows that, even though FaceQgen does not surpass the best existing face quality assessment methods in terms of face recognition accuracy prediction, it achieves good enough results to demonstrate the…
• CR-FIQA: Face Image Quality Assessment by Learning Sample Relative Classifiability
  13 Dec 2021 1 repository listed
  Based on that, our proposed CR-FIQA uses this paradigm to estimate the face image quality of a sample by predicting its relative classifiability.
• Explainability of the Implications of Supervised and Unsupervised Face Image Quality Estimations Through Activation Map Variation Analyses in Face Recognition Models
  9 Dec 2021 1 repository listed
  To avoid the low discrimination between the general spatial activation mapping of low and high-quality images in FR models, we build our explainability tools in a higher derivative space by analyzing the variation of…
• Pixel-Level Face Image Quality Assessment for Explainable Face Recognition
  21 Oct 2021 1 repository listed
  To achieve this, a model-specific quality value of the input image is estimated and used to build a sample-specific quality regression model.
• SDD-FIQA: Unsupervised Face Image Quality Assessment with Similarity Distribution Distance
  10 Mar 2021 1 repository listed
  Thus, we propose a novel unsupervised FIQA method that incorporates Similarity Distribution Distance for Face Image Quality Assessment (SDD-FIQA).