2021/08/25 by Yaping Jing, Jing, Yaping, Xuequan Lu +3
Computer Science · #Biometric Identification and Security #Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Face and Expression Recognition #Face recognition and analysis #Graphics (cs.GR) #cs.CV #cs.GR
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2108.11082
arxiv created 2021/08/25 · openalex publication_date 2021/08/25 · arxiv updated 2021/08/26 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Face recognition is one of the most studied research topics in the community. In recent years, the research on face recognition has shifted to using 3D facial surfaces, as more discriminating features can be represented by the 3D geometric information. This survey focuses on reviewing the 3D face recognition techniques developed in the past ten years which are generally categorized into conventional methods and deep learning methods. The categorized techniques are evaluated using detailed descriptions of the representative works. The advantages and disadvantages of the techniques are summarized in terms of accuracy, complexity and robustness to face variation (expression, pose and occlusions, etc). The main contribution of this survey is that it comprehensively covers both conventional methods and deep learning methods on 3D face recognition. In addition, a review of available 3D face databases is provided, along with the discussion of future research challenges and directions.