Kinship verification in the wild: The first kinship verification competition

Kinship verification from facial images in wild conditions is a relatively new and challenging problem in face analysis. Several datasets and algorithms have been proposed in recent years. However, most existing datasets are of small sizes and one standard evaluation protocol is still lack so that it is difficult to compare the performance of different kinship verification methods. In this paper, we present the Kinship Verification in the Wild Competition: the first kinship verification competition which is held in conjunction with the International Joint Conference on Biometrics 2014, Clearwater, Florida, USA. The key goal of this competition is to compare the performance of different methods on a new-collected dataset with the same evaluation protocol and develop the first standardized benchmark for kinship verification in the wild.

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