Dear Colleagues,

I am glad to invite you to participate in the IJCB Masked face recognition competition (MFR-2021).

The competition is organized in association with the International Joint Conference on Biometrics IJCB 2021 (http://ijcb2021.iapr-tc4.org/)

Short information:

Given the current COVID-19 pandemic, it is essential to enable contactless and smooth-running operations, especially in contact-sensitive facilities like airports. Face recognition has been preferred as a contactless means of verifying identities. However, wearing masks is now essential to prevent the spread of contagious diseases and has been currently forced in public places in many countries. The performance, and thus the trust on contactless identity verification through face recognition can be impacted by the presence of a mask.  The effect of wearing a mask on face recognition in a collaborative environment is currently a sensitive issue. The MFR competition is the first to attract and present technical solutions that enhance the accuracy of masked face recognition on real face masks and in a collaborative face verification scenario.  All participants, who achieve competitive results, will be invited as co-authors for a summary paper of MFR. The paper will submit IJCB 2021.

Competition details: https://sites.google.com/view/ijcb-mfr-2021/home

Conference details: http://ijcb2021.iapr-tc4.org/

Timeline:

15, February – Registration open

31, April  – Deadline for algorithm submission

15, May – Announcement of results to participants

31, May – Submit competition paper to IJCB 2021

For any inquiries, please do not hesitate to contact Fadi Boutros (fadi.boutros@igd.fraunhofer.de) or any of the organizers.

Cheers

Naser

Dr.-Ing. Naser Damer

Smart Living & Biometric Technologies

Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research IGD

Fraunhoferstr. 5  |  64283 Darmstadt  |  Germany Tel +49 6151 155-521

Fax +49 6151 155-499 | naser.damer@igd.fraunhofer.de  | www.igd.fraunhofer.de