Masked Face Recognition: Human vs. Machine

Understand

The recent COVID-19 pandemic has increased the focus on hygienic and contactless identity verification methods.

• However, the pandemic led to the wide use of face masks, essential to keep the pandemic under control.
• The effect of wearing a mask on face recognition (FR) in a collaborative environment is a currently sensitive yet understudied issue.
• Recent reports have tackled this by evaluating the masked probe effect on the performance of automatic FR solutions.