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ArcFace
Additive Angular Margin Loss for Deep Face Recognition
ArcFace introduced a simple but highly effective angular margin objective that made face embeddings more discriminative at production scale.
Paper Details
ArcFace: Additive Angular Margin Loss for Deep Face Recognition
Publication
CVPR 2019
Authors
Jiankang Deng, Jia Guo, Niannan Xue, Stefanos Zafeiriou
Research Overview
ArcFace became one of the most influential face recognition papers because it improves how identity classes are separated in embedding space while keeping training practical. The method is widely used as a strong baseline for verification, identification, search, and account security pipelines.
Production Applications
- Identity verification and digital onboarding
- Access control and workforce authentication
- Duplicate account detection and fraud reduction
- Large-scale face search and watchlist matching
Key Contributions
Adds an explicit angular margin so the model learns tighter same-person clusters and clearer separation between identities.
Improved benchmark performance on major face recognition evaluations helped establish ArcFace as a standard loss for modern face embeddings.
Works naturally with large-scale recognition systems that need stable similarity scores for matching, deduplication, and watchlist search.
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