QualFace: Adapting Deep Learning Face Recognition for ID and Travel Documents with Quality Assessment

Modern face recognition biometrics widely rely on deep neural networks that are usually trained on large collections of wild face images of celebrities. This choice of the data is related with its public availability in a situation when existing ID document compliant face image datasets (usually stored by national institutions) are hardly accessible due to continuously increasing privacy restrictions. However this may lead to a leak in performance in systems developed specifically for ID document compliant images. In this work we proposed a novel face recognition approach for mitigating that problem. To adapt deep face recognition network for document security purposes, we propose to regularise the training process with specific sample mining strategy which penalises the samples by their estimated quality, where the quality metric is proposed by our work and is related to the specific case of face images for ID documents. We perform extensive experiments and demonstrate the efficiency of proposed approach for ID document compliant face images.