arXiv:2510.15289cs.CV2025-10中稿 · Round 1 at WACV 20…被引 1

提出QCFace方法,用硬边界提升人脸识别中的可辨识性表示。

QCFace: Image Quality Control for boosting Face Representation & Recognition

  • 设计硬边界损失函数,分离可辨识性与身份特征
  • 在LFW、MS-Celeb-1M等数据集上达到最优准确率
  • 适合需要高鲁棒性的人脸识别场景

可辨识性是人类面部处理中的关键感知因素,显著影响人脸识别系统在验证和识别任务中的表现。在深度人脸识别中,损失函数对特征嵌入方式起决定作用。但现有方法存在两大缺陷:(i) 仅通过软边界约束部分捕捉可辨识性,导致低质量或模糊人脸的表征能力弱、区分度低;(ii) 特征方向与幅值间的梯度相互重叠,引发优化不稳定性,造成超球面规划混乱,影响泛化性能,并导致可辨识性与身份信息纠缠不清。为此,本文提出硬边界策略——质量控制人脸(QCFace),有效解决梯度重叠问题,实现可辨识性与身份表示的清晰解耦。基于该策略,设计新型基于硬边界的损失函数,引入引导因子进行超球面规划,同时优化识别能力和显式可辨识性表示。大量实验表明,QCFace不仅提供稳定且可量化的可辨识性编码,还在验证与识别基准测试中均优于现有基于可辨识性的损失函数,达到当前最佳性能。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Recognizability, a key perceptual factor in human face processing, strongly affects the performance of face recognition (FR) systems in both verification and identification tasks. Effectively using recognizability to enhance feature representation remains challenging. In deep FR, the loss function plays a crucial role in shaping how features are embedded. However, current methods have two main drawbacks: (i) recognizability is only partially captured through soft margin constraints, resulting in weaker quality representation and lower discrimination, especially for low-quality or ambiguous faces; (ii) mutual overlapping gradients between feature direction and magnitude introduce undesirable interactions during optimization, causing instability and confusion in hypersphere planning, which may result in poor generalization, and entangled representations where recognizability and identity are not cleanly separated. To address these issues, we introduce a hard margin strategy - Quality Control Face (QCFace), which overcomes the mutual overlapping gradient problem and enables the clear decoupling of recognizability from identity representation. Based on this strategy, a novel hard-margin-based loss function employs a guidance factor for hypersphere planning, simultaneously optimizing for recognition ability and explicit recognizability representation. Extensive experiments confirm that QCFace not only provides robust and quantifiable recognizability encoding but also achieves state-of-the-art performance in both verification and identification benchmarks compared to existing recognizability-based losses.

人脸识别特征解耦损失函数可辨识性

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