翻訳待ち：Improving Low-Resolution Face Recognition under Limited Data: How Synthetic Data Generation Can Close the Domain Gap

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--> [Submitted on 6 Aug 2026] Title:Improving Low-Resolution Face Recognition under Limited Data: How Synthetic Data Generation Can Close the Domain Gap View a PDF of the paper titled Improving Low-Resolution Face Recognition under Limited Data: How Synthetic Data Generation Can Close the Domain Gap, by Luis S. Luevano and 3 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:Face Recognition (FR) systems in surveillance settings often encounter Low Resolution (LR) faces, those whose face region falls below the standard 112 $\times$ 112 input size. While labelled High Resolution (HR) training data is abundant, labelled native-LR data, and above all paired native LR/HR data, is scarce. One workaround is to synthesize LR data from the available HR faces, but how much synthesis effort is repaid in recognition accuracy remains unclear. We present a study of simple synthetic generation strategies for a compact, edge device-oriented face recognition system, spanning interpolation-based degradation, knowledge distillation, a Prepended Domain Transformer (PDT), Real ESRGAN-style degradation, and a learned Super Resolution (SR) front-end with an identity-aware loss. We evaluate these strategies on synthetic cross-resolution face benchmarks (LFW, CFP-FP, AgeDB-30) and on TinyFace, a real-world native LR dataset, and expose a synthetic-real gap: the degradation setting that is optimal on synthetic benchmarks is not the one that is optimal on real LR. We find that more synthesis effort does not help monotonically: the learned SR front-end does not surpass a direct feed of the aligned LR image into a strong backbone, while simple interpolation augmentation of a compact backbone is the only synthesis that improves over its own baseline. We conclude that generative methods for LR face recognition must be validated on real LR and against a direct-feed baseline, and release our pipeline at this https URL Comments: Accepted at IEEE International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB) 2026, Focus Session on Generative AI for Fair and Secure Biometrics under Limited Data Subjects: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV) Cite as: arXiv:2608.06580 [cs.CV] (or arXiv:2608.06580v1 [cs.CV] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2608.06580 arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration) Submission history From: Luis Santiago Luevano [view email] [v1] Thu, 6 Aug 2026 20:49:22 UTC (2,439 KB) Full-text links: Access Paper: View a PDF of the paper titled Improving Low-Resolution Face Recognition under Limited Data: How Synthetic Data Generation Can Close the Domain Gap, by Luis S. Luevano and 3 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) TeX Source view license Current browse context: cs.CV new | recent | 2026-08 Change to browse by: cs References & Citations NASA ADS Google Scholar Semantic Scholar Loading... Data provided by: Bibliographic Tools Bibliographic and Citation Tools Bibliographic Explorer Toggle Bibliographic Explorer (What is the Explorer?) Connected Papers Toggle Connected Papers (What is Connected Papers?) Litmaps Toggle Litmaps (What is Litmaps?) scite.ai Toggle scite Smart Citations (What are Smart Citations?) Code, Data, Media Code, Data and Media Associated with this Article alphaXiv Toggle alphaXiv (What is alphaXiv?) Links to Code Toggle CatalyzeX Code Finder for Papers (What is CatalyzeX?) DagsHub Toggle DagsHub (What is DagsHub?) GotitPub Toggle Gotit.pub (What is GotitPub?) Huggingface Toggle Hugging Face (What is Huggingface?) ScienceCast Toggle ScienceCast (What is ScienceCast?) Demos Demos Replicate Toggle Replicate (What is Replicate?) Spaces Toggle Hugging Face Spaces (What is Spaces?) Spaces Toggle TXYZ.AI (What is TXYZ.AI?) Related Papers Recommenders and Search Tools Link to Influence Flower Influence Flower (What are Influence Flowers?) Core recommender toggle CORE Recommender (What is CORE?) Author Venue Institution Topic About arXivLabs arXivLabs: experimental projects with community collaborators arXivLabs is a framework that allows collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on our website. Both individuals and organizations that work with arXivLabs have embraced and accepted our values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. arXiv is committed to these values and only works with partners that adhere to them. Have an idea for a project that will add value for arXiv's community? Learn more about arXivLabs. Which authors of this paper are endorsers? | Disable MathJax (What is MathJax?)