Second Edition FRCSyn Challenge at CVPR 2024: Face Recognition Challenge in the Era of Synthetic Data

Ivan DeAndres-Tame, Ruben Tolosana, Pietro Melzi, Rubén Vera-Rodríguez, Minchul Kim, Christian Rathgeb, Xiaoming Liu, Aythami Morales, Julian Fiérrez, Javier Ortega-Garcia, Zhizhou Zhong, Yuge Huang, Yuxi Mi, Shouhong Ding, Shuigeng Zhou, Shuai He, Lingzhi Fu, Heng Cong, Rongyu Zhang, Zhihong Xiao et al. (38 additional authors not shown)

Abstract: Synthetic data is gaining increasing relevance for training machine learning models. This is mainly motivated due to several factors such as the lack of real data and intra-class variability, time and errors produced in manual labeling, and in some cases privacy concerns, among others. This paper presents an overview of the 2 nd edition of the Face Recognition Challenge in the Era of Synthetic Data (FRCSyn) organized at CVPR 2024. FRCSyn aims to investigate the use of synthetic data in face recognition to address current technological limitations, including data privacy concerns, demographic biases, generalization to novel scenarios, and performance constraints in challenging situations such as aging, pose variations, and occlusions. Unlike the 1 st edition, in which synthetic data from DCFace and GANDiffFace methods was only allowed to train face recognition systems, in this 2 nd edition we propose new sub-tasks that allow participants to explore novel face generative methods. The outcomes of the 2 nd FRCSyn Challenge, along with the proposed experimental protocol and benchmarking contribute significantly to the application of synthetic data to face recognition.