Jurnal Sistem Cerdas
Vol. 8 No. 3 (2025): In progress (December)

Melanin-Aware and ArcFace Methods in Facial Recognition for Dark-Skinned Individuals

Purba, Risa Tioria Marlini (Unknown)
Hadayat, Fadhil (Unknown)
Supangkat, Suhono Harso (Unknown)
Arman, Arry Akhmad (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
31 Dec 2025

Abstract

The facial recognition system employing the Melanin-Aware method in conjunction with ArcFace, trained on a dataset of 1,000 dark-skinned facial samples, demonstrates the ability to accurately recognize individuals with dark skin while maintaining performance for non-dark-skinned individuals. ArcFace is utilized as the primary feature extractor, leveraging the additive angular margin to enhance inter-class separability. The experiments were conducted using 1,000 dark-skinned facial samples for training and 100 samples for testing. Evaluation results indicate that melanin-aware preprocessing improves average accuracy by up to 17% compared to the absence of preprocessing, and by 7% compared to the standard aggressive CLAHE-based method. Furthermore, the True Acceptance Rate (TAR) increased from 88.15% to 93.33% at FAR = 1e−2, and from 83.7% to 86.67% at FAR = 1e−3, signifying enhanced system stability under stringent security conditions. The performance gains are supported by a more stable distribution of similarity scores and lower threshold values, reflecting improved separation between genuine and impostor pairs.

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jsc

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Subject

Automotive Engineering Computer Science & IT Control & Systems Engineering Education Electrical & Electronics Engineering

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