Lightweight Cross-Spectral Face Recognition via Contrastive Alignment and Distillation
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| author | George, Anjith Marcel, Sebastien |
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| contents | Heterogeneous Face Recognition (HFR) aims at matching face images captured across different sensing modalities, such as thermal-to-visible or near-infrared-to-visible, enhancing the usability of face recognition systems in challenging real-world conditions. Although recent HFR methods have achieved significant improvements in performance, many rely on computationally expensive models, making them impractical for deployment on resource-limited edge devices. In this work, we introduce a lightweight yet effective HFR framework by adapting a hybrid CNN-Transformer model originally developed for RGB homogeneous face recognition. Our approach enables efficient end-to-end training with only a small amount of paired heterogeneous data, while still maintaining strong performance on standard RGB face recognition benchmarks. This makes it suitable for both homogeneous and heterogeneous settings. Comprehensive experiments on several challenging HFR and face recognition benchmarks show that our method achieves state-of-the-art or competitive performance while keeping computational requirements low. |
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| spellingShingle | Lightweight Cross-Spectral Face Recognition via Contrastive Alignment and Distillation George, Anjith Marcel, Sebastien Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Heterogeneous Face Recognition (HFR) aims at matching face images captured across different sensing modalities, such as thermal-to-visible or near-infrared-to-visible, enhancing the usability of face recognition systems in challenging real-world conditions. Although recent HFR methods have achieved significant improvements in performance, many rely on computationally expensive models, making them impractical for deployment on resource-limited edge devices. In this work, we introduce a lightweight yet effective HFR framework by adapting a hybrid CNN-Transformer model originally developed for RGB homogeneous face recognition. Our approach enables efficient end-to-end training with only a small amount of paired heterogeneous data, while still maintaining strong performance on standard RGB face recognition benchmarks. This makes it suitable for both homogeneous and heterogeneous settings. Comprehensive experiments on several challenging HFR and face recognition benchmarks show that our method achieves state-of-the-art or competitive performance while keeping computational requirements low. |
| title | Lightweight Cross-Spectral Face Recognition via Contrastive Alignment and Distillation |
| topic | Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.04769 |