Plastic surgery: An obstacle for deep face recognition?
The impacts of plastic surgery on face recognition systems have been investigated in the past decade by many researchers. Diverse well-known face recognition approaches, e.g. based on PCA or LBP, have been bench-marked mostly on the web-collected IIITD plastic surgery face database. Generally, significant performance drops were reported when comparing facial images taken before and after plastic surgeries. On the one side, some researchers reported problems with said plastic surgery database, i.e. the presence of low quality images.