Masked Face Recognition under Different Backbones

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2601.16440v1
• Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2026 04:33:37 GMT
• Title: Masked Face Recognition under Different Backbones
• Authors: Bo Zhang, Ming Zhang, Kun Wu, Lei Bian, Yi Lin,
• Abstract summary: In post-pandemic era, a high proportion of civil aviation passengers wear masks during security checks.<n> backbone network serves as the core component of face recognition models.<n>Vit-Small/Tiny showed strong masked performance with gains in effectiveness.
• Score: 8.3465195932175
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Erratum to the paper (Zhang et al., 2025): corrections to Table IV and the data in Page 3, Section A. In the post-pandemic era, a high proportion of civil aviation passengers wear masks during security checks, posing significant challenges to traditional face recognition models. The backbone network serves as the core component of face recognition models. In standard tests, r100 series models excelled (98%+ accuracy at 0.01% FAR in face comparison, high top1/top5 in search). r50 ranked second, r34_mask_v1 lagged. In masked tests, r100_mask_v2 led (90.07% accuracy), r50_mask_v3 performed best among r50 but trailed r100. Vit-Small/Tiny showed strong masked performance with gains in effectiveness. Through extensive comparative experiments, this paper conducts a comprehensive evaluation of several core backbone networks, aiming to reveal the impacts of different models on face recognition with and without masks, and provide specific deployment recommendations.

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