Ensuring compliance of face images with ISO/ICAO quality standards is essential for boosting the document enrollment process. Indeed, traditional manual checks are slow, subjective, and difficult to scale. Therefore, we propose a system that aims to fully automate compliance verification by directly analyzing the official requirements without relying on predefined hand-crafted features or manual thresholds. Our method combines a Large Language Model, a novel prompt learning procedure, and a contrastive learning framework to evaluate the adherence of a face image to quality requirements. Tested on a recent dataset, our proposed system achieves high accuracy, surpassing existing academic and commercial solutions. By streamlining the implementation and updates to the compliance rules, our approach represents a significant step toward simple, scalable, and regulation-driven image verification. Code and models are publicly available 1
Di Domenico, N., Borghi, G., Franco, A., Maltoni, D. (2025). Towards Zero-Shot ISO/ICAO Face Compliance Verification via CLIP-IQA and Natural Language Prompting. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. [10.1109/IJCB65343.2025.11410834].
Towards Zero-Shot ISO/ICAO Face Compliance Verification via CLIP-IQA and Natural Language Prompting
Di Domenico NicolòPrimo
;Borghi GuidoSecondo
;Franco AnnalisaPenultimo
;Maltoni DavideUltimo
2025
Abstract
Ensuring compliance of face images with ISO/ICAO quality standards is essential for boosting the document enrollment process. Indeed, traditional manual checks are slow, subjective, and difficult to scale. Therefore, we propose a system that aims to fully automate compliance verification by directly analyzing the official requirements without relying on predefined hand-crafted features or manual thresholds. Our method combines a Large Language Model, a novel prompt learning procedure, and a contrastive learning framework to evaluate the adherence of a face image to quality requirements. Tested on a recent dataset, our proposed system achieves high accuracy, surpassing existing academic and commercial solutions. By streamlining the implementation and updates to the compliance rules, our approach represents a significant step toward simple, scalable, and regulation-driven image verification. Code and models are publicly available 1I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.



