DEFOG: Deep Learning with Attention Mechanism Enabled Cross-Age Face Recognition

As individuals age, their facial features change, which can hinder the accuracy of face recognition technology. To address this challenge, a new cross-age face recognition algorithm, leveraging deep learning and a loss function (Loss), has been proposed in this article. The Retinaface algorithm detects faces in images, while the Resnet-50 model is enhanced by incorporating an attention mechanism and improved softmax loss (Arcface) to extract facial features. This approach has been tested on publicly available and custom-built datasets, and its performance has been compared to other cross-age face recognition techniques. The results show that the model effectively recognizes faces across different age groups.