EFaR 2023: Efficient Face Recognition Competition

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2023 IEEE International Joint Conference on Biometrics

Authors:

Jan Niklas Kolf, Fadi Boutros, Jurek Elliesen, Markus Theuerkauf, Naser Damer, Mohamad Alansari, Oussama Abdul Hay, Sara Alansari, Sajid Javed, Naoufel Werghi, Klemen Grm, Vitomir Struc, Fernando Alonso-Fernandez, Kevin Hernandez Diaz, Josef Bigun, Anjith George, Christophe Ecabert, Hatef Otroshi Shahreza, Ketan Kotwal, Sébastien Marcel, Iurii Medvedev, Bo Jin, Diogo Nunes, Ahmad Hassanpour, Pankaj Khatiwada, Aafan Ahmad Toor and Bian Yang

Abstract

This paper presents the summary of the Efficient Face Recognition Competition (EFaR) held at the 2023 International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB 2023). The competition received 17 submissions from 6 different teams. To drive further development of efficient face recognition models, the submitted solutions are ranked based on a weighted score of the achieved verification accuracies on a diverse set of benchmarks, as well as the deployability given by the number of floating-point operations and model size. The evaluation of submissions is extended to bias, cross-quality, and large-scale recognition benchmarks. Overall, the paper gives an overview of the achieved performance values of the submitted solutions as well as a diverse set of baselines. The submitted solutions use small, efficient network architectures to reduce the computational cost, some solutions apply model quantization. An outlook on possible techniques that are underrepresented in current solutions is given as well.