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Face Sample Quality

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Face sample standardization; Face sample utility

Definition

Face is a human biometric attribute that can be used to establish the identity of a person. A face-based biometric system operates by capturing probe face samples and comparing them against gallery face templates. The intrinsic characteristic of captured face samples determine their effectiveness for face authentication. Face sample quality is a measurement of these intrinsic characteristics. Face sample quality has significant impact on the performance of a face-based biometric system. Recognizing face samples of poor quality is a challenging problem. A number of factors can contribute toward degradation in face sample quality. They include, but not limited to, illumination variation, pose variation, facial expression change, face occlusion, low resolution, and high sensing noise.

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A typical face-based biometric system operates by capturing face data (images or videos), and comparing the obtained face...

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Integration Technology, CAS/CUHK, Shenzhen, People's Republic of China

    Kui Jia

  2. Queen Mary, University of London, London, UK

    Shaogang Gong

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  1. Center for Biometrics and Security Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

    Stan Z. Li (Professor) (Professor)

  2. Departments of Computer Science & Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA

    Anil Jain (Professor) (Professor)

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Jia, K., Gong, S. (2009). Face Sample Quality. In: Li, S.Z., Jain, A. (eds) Encyclopedia of Biometrics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-73003-5_86

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