FRoundation: Are foundation models ready for face recognition?

Tahar Chettaoui, Naser Damer, Fadi Boutros

Abstract: Highlights•First work to investigate the performance of foundation models for face recognition.•First to adapt foundation models using low-rank adaptation (LoRA) for face recognition.•Investigate the impact of dataset size on ViTs and foundation models tuned with LoRA for face recognition.•Evaluate foundation models and adapted ones on mainstream face recognition benchmarks.•Explore the potential of synthetic face datasets for fine-tuning foundation models and training ViTs.