FRoundation: Are Foundation Models Ready for Face Recognition?

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2410.23831v2
• Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2024 12:11:29 GMT
• Title: FRoundation: Are Foundation Models Ready for Face Recognition?
• Authors: Tahar Chettaoui, Naser Damer, Fadi Boutros,
• Abstract summary: We propose and demonstrate the adaptation of foundation models for face recognition across different levels of data availability. Our results indicate that, despite their versatility, pre-trained foundation models underperform in face recognition. Fine-tuning foundation models yields promising results, often surpassing models trained from scratch when training data is limited.
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• Abstract: Foundation models are predominantly trained in an unsupervised or self-supervised manner on highly diverse and large-scale datasets, making them broadly applicable to various downstream tasks. In this work, we investigate for the first time whether such models are suitable for the specific domain of face recognition. We further propose and demonstrate the adaptation of these models for face recognition across different levels of data availability. Extensive experiments are conducted on multiple foundation models and datasets of varying scales for training and fine-tuning, with evaluation on a wide range of benchmarks. Our results indicate that, despite their versatility, pre-trained foundation models underperform in face recognition compared to similar architectures trained specifically for this task. However, fine-tuning foundation models yields promising results, often surpassing models trained from scratch when training data is limited. Even with access to large-scale face recognition training datasets, fine-tuned foundation models perform comparably to models trained from scratch, but with lower training computational costs and without relying on the assumption of extensive data availability. Our analysis also explores bias in face recognition, with slightly higher bias observed in some settings when using foundation models.

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