Face Authentication Competition on the BANCA Database

Abstract. This paper details the results of a face verification competition [2] held in conjunction with the First International Conference on Biometric Authentication. The contest was held on the publically available BANCA database [1] according to a defined protocol [6]. Six different verification algorithms from 4 academic and commercial institutions submitted results. Also, a standard set of face recognition software from the internet [3] was used to provide a baseline performance measure.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: ICBA
• Authors: Kieron Messer, Josef Kittler, Mohammad Sadeghi, Miroslav Hamouz, Alexey Kostin, Sébastien Marcel, Samy Bengio, Fabien Cardinaux, Conrad Sanderson, Norman Poh, Yann Rodriguez, Krzysztof Kryszczuk, Jacek Czyz, Luc Vandendorpe, Johnny Ng, Humphrey Cheung, Billy Tang
• Keywords: Available Banca Database, Biometrics, Face Recognition Software, Face Verification Competition, ICBA 2004