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The Masked Face Recognition Challenge & Workshop will be held in conjunction with the International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2021.
1. Opening Remarks (7:00AM - 7:20AM)
2. Invited Talks from Academia and Industry (~30min each + QA)
3. Top-ranked Solutions from the Challenge (SenseTime, Kakao Enterprise, Alibaba, Microsoft, DeepCam)
4. Selected Report of Workshop Papers
5. Award
Jiankang Deng, Imperial College London, UK j.deng16@imperial.ac.uk
Zheng Zhu, Tsinghua University, China zhengzhu@tsinghua.edu.cn
Jia Guo, InsightFace, China guojia@gmail.com
Stefanos Zafeiriou, Imperial College London, UK s.zafeiriou@imperial.ac.uk
During the COVID-19 coronavirus epidemic, almost everyone wears a facial mask, which poses a huge challenge to face recognition. Traditional face recognition systems may not effectively recognize the masked faces, but removing the mask for authentication will increase the risk of virus infection. Inspired by the COVID-19 pandemic response, the widespread requirement that people wear protective face masks in public places has driven a need to understand how face recognition technology deals with occluded faces, often with just the periocular area and above visible.
To cope with the challenge arising from wearing masks, it is crucial to improve the existing face recognition approaches. Recently, some commercial providers have announced the availability of face recognition algorithms capable of handling face masks, and an increasing number of research publications have surfaced on the topic of face recognition on people wearing masks. However, due to the sudden outbreak of the epidemic, there is yet no publicly available masked face recognition benchmark. In this workshop, we will organise Masked Face Recognition (MFR) challenge and focus on bench-marking deep face recognition methods under the existence of facial masks.
Jia Guo, InsightFace, China guojia@gmail.com
Xiang An, InsightFace, China anxiangsir@gmail.com
Zheng Zhu, Tsinghua University, China zhengzhu@tsinghua.edu.cn
Details of Insightface Track: link
Zheng Zhu, Tsinghua University, China zhengzhu@tsinghua.edu.cn
Jiagang Zhu, China jiagang.zhu@xforwardai.com
Jia Guo, InsightFace, China guojia@gmail.com
Details of WebFace Track: link
Insightface and WebFace
Check this link for the challenge tips and further discussions.
Challenge participants can submit a paper to summarize the methodology and the achieved performance of their algorithm. We also welcome other face-related research works to submit to this workshop. Submissions should adhere to the main ICCV 2021 proceedings style. The workshop papers will be published in the ICCV 2021 proceedings. Please sign up in the submission system to submit your paper.
The Masked Face Recognition Challenge has been supported by (in alphabetical order)
Kiwi Tech (5000$)
OneFlow (5000$)
XforwardAI (7750$)
Zoloz(5000$)
InsightFace Track: insightface.challenge@gmail.com
WebFace Track: info@face-benchmark.org