Whole-Body Detection, Identification and Recognition at Altitude and Range

In this paper, we address the challenging task of whole-body biometric detection, recognition, and identification at distances of up to 500m and large pitch angles of up to 50°. We present an end-to-end system evaluated on the challenging Biometric Recognition and Identification at Altitude and Range (BRIAR) dataset. Our approach involves pre-training the detector on common image datasets and fine-tuning it on BRIAR’s complex videos and images. After detection, we extract body images and employ a feature extractor for recognition. We conduct thorough evaluations under various conditions, such as different ranges and angles in indoor, outdoor, and aerial scenarios. Our method achieves an average F1 score of 98.29% at IoU ${=}0.7$ and demonstrates strong performance in recognition accuracy and true acceptance rate at low false acceptance rates compared to existing models. On a test set of 100 subjects with 444 distractors, our model achieves a rank-20 recognition accuracy of 75.13% and a TAR@1%FAR of 54.09%.