Selfie Periocular Verification using an Efficient Super-Resolution Approach
Selfie-based biometrics has great potential for a wide range of applications since, e.g. periocular verification is contactless and is safe to use in pandemics such as COVID-19, when a major portion of a face is covered by a facial mask. Despite its advantages, selfie-based biometrics presents challenges since there is limited control over data acquisition at different distances. Therefore, Super-Resolution (SR) has to be used to increase the quality of the eye images and to keep or improve the recognition performance. We propose an Efficient Single Image Super-Resolution algorithm, which takes into account a trade-off between the efficiency and the size of its filters. To that end, the method implements a loss function based on the Sharpness metric used to evaluate iris images quality. Our method drastically reduces the number of parameters compared to the state-of-the-art: from 2,170,142 to 28,654. Our best results on remote verification systems with no redimensioning reached an EER of 8.89\% for FaceNet, 12.14% for VGGFace, and 12.81% for ArcFace. Then, embedding vectors were extracted from SR images, the FaceNet-based system yielded an EER of 8.92% for a resizing of x2, 8.85% for x3, and 9.32% for x4.
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