Impact and Detection of Facial Beautification in Face Recognition: An Overview

Christian Rathgeb (1) , Antitza Dantcheva (2) , Christoph Busch (1)

1 Hochschule Darmstadt
2 STARS - Spatio-Temporal Activity Recognition Systems

Facial beautification induced by plastic surgery, cosmetics or retouching has the ability to substantially alter the appearance of face images. Such types of beautification can negatively affect the accuracy of face recognition systems. In this work, a conceptual categorisation of beautification is presented, relevant scenarios with respect to face recognition are discussed, and related publications are revisited. Additionally, technical considerations and trade-offs of the surveyed methods are summarized along with open issues and challenges in the field. This survey is targeted to provide a comprehensive point of reference for biometric researchers and practitioners working in the field of face recognition, who aim at tackling challenges caused by facial beautification.

Mots clés: Beautification impact mitigation; Beautification detection; Beautification; Face recognition; Facial cosmetics; Makeup; Plastic surgery; Biometric recognition; Facial retouching

Domaines: Traitement des images [eess.IV]; Vision par ordinateur et reconnaissance de formes [cs.CV]

Christian Rathgeb, Antitza Dantcheva, Christoph Busch. Impact and Detection of Facial Beautification in Face Recognition: An Overview. IEEE Access, 2019, ⟨10.1109/ACCESS.2019.DOI⟩. ⟨hal-02378939⟩