Publications

2025

[15] A. Bhatta, D. Mery, H. Wu, and K. W. Bowyer. CRAFT: Contextual Re-Activation of Filters for Face Recognition Training. In IEEE International Conference on Face and Gesture (FG), 2025

[14] A. Bhatta, M. C. King, and K. W. Bowyer. Deep CNN Face Matchers Inherently Support Revocable Biometrics. In IEEE International Conference on Face and Gesture (FG) (Oral 🏆), 2025

[13] A. Bhatta, D. Mery, H. Wu, J. Annan, M. C. King, and K. W. Bowyer. What’s Color Got to Do with It? Face Recognition in Grayscale. In IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science (T-BIOM), 2025

[12] H. Wu, S. Tian, A. Bhatta, J. Gutierrez, K. Ozturk, and K. W. Bowyer. Optimistic Bias in Face Recognition Accuracy Measurement Caused by Train/Test Identity Overlap. In IEEE International Conference on Face and Gesture (FG), 2025

[11] K. Ozturk, G. Bezold, A. Bhatta, H. Wu, and K. W. Bowyer. Beard Segmentation and Recognition Bias. In IEEE International Conference on Face and Gesture (FG), 2025

[10] K. Ozturk, A. Bhatta, H. Wu, and K. W. Bowyer. On the Effectiveness of Restricted Receptive Fields for Interpretable Face Verification. 2025. In Review

[9] H. Wu, S. Tian, A. Bhatta, J. Gutierrez, G. Bezold, G. Argueta, K. Ricanek Jr., M. C. King, and K. W. Bowyer. What is Goldilocks Face Verification Test Set? 2025. In Review

2024

[8] A. Bhatta, G. Pangelinan, H. Wu, M. C. King, and K. W. Bowyer. Analyzing the Impact of Demographic and Operational Variables on 1-to-Many Facial ID Search. In IEEE Transactions of Technology and Society (TTS), volume 5, 2024.

[7] A. Bhatta, H. Wu, K. Öztürk, and K. W. Bowyer. Revisiting Linearization of Spatial Maps in SoTA Face Recognition Backbone. In IEEE International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB), 2024

[6] A. Bhatta, D. Mery, H. Wu, J. Annan, M. C. King, and K. W. Bowyer. Our Deep CNN Face Matchers Have Developed Achromatopsia. In IEEE/CVF TCV @ Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024

[5] A. Bhatta, G. Pangelinan, M. C. King, and K. W. Bowyer. Impact of Probe and Resolution in Demographic Disparities in 1-to-Many Facial Identification. In IEEE/CVF WVAQ @ Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2024

[4] H. Wu, S. Tian, A. Bhatta, K. Öztürk, K. Ricanek Jr., and K. W. Bowyer. Facial Hair Area in Face Recognition: Small Size, Big Effect. In IEEE/CVF DVPBA @ Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2024

2023

[3] A. Bhatta, V. Albiero, K. W. Bowyer, and M. C. King. The Gender Gap in Face Recognition Accuracy Is a Hairy Problem. In IEEE/CVF DVPBA @ Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2023

[2] H. Wu, G. Bezold, A. Bhatta, and K. W. Bowyer. Logical Consistency and Greater Descriptive Power for Facial Hair Attribute Learning. In IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2023

[1] W. Robbins, S. Zhou, A. Bhatta, C. Mello, V. Albiero, K. W. Bowyer, and T. E. Boult. CAST: Conditional Attribute Subsampling Toolkit for Fine-grained Evaluation. In IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) (Oral 🏆), 2023