arxivcs.CV2026-07-09
A Step Forward Towards Trustworthy Risk-Aware Facial Retrieval (RA-FR)
Muhammad Emmad Siddiqui, Muhammad Rafi
Facial image retrieval in unconstrained surveillance environments is a high-stakes challenge where missing a subject of interest -- a single false negative -- is simply not an option. Despite near-perfect performance on curated benchmarks, current recognition systems falter under…