## 3 Materials and Methods
### System Implementation
; Software, Q.A., G.P. and M.E.C. ; Supervision, T.S.A., G.P. and M.E.C. ; Validation, T.S.A. and G.P. ; Visualization, Q.A. ; Writing--original draft, Q.A., T.S.A., G.P. and M.E.C. ; Writing--review and editing, Q.A., T.S.A., G.P. and M.E.C. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript. This work was supported and funded by the Deanship of Scientific Research at Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University (IMSIU) (grant number IMSIU-RP23047). Not applicable. **Data Availability Statement:** The datasets generated during and/or analyzed during the current study are available in CASIA-Webface [30]: [[https://paperswithcode.com/dataset/csia-webface](https://paperswithcode.com/dataset/csia-webface)]([https://paperswithcode.com/dataset/csia-webface](https://paperswithcode.com/dataset/csia-webface)), accessed on 23 February 2022, LFW [31]: [[http://vis-www.cs.umass.edu/lfw/](http://vis-www.cs.umass.edu/lfw/)]([http://vis-www.cs.umass.edu/lfw/](http://vis-www.cs.umass.edu/lfw/)), accessed on 23 February 2022, CALFW [32]: [[http://whdeng.cn/CALFW/index.html](http://whdeng.cn/CALFW/index.html)]([http://whdeng.cn/CALFW/index.html](http://whdeng.cn/CALFW/index.html)), accessed on 23 February 2022, CPLFW [33]: [[http://www.whdeng.cn/cplfw/index.html](http://www.whdeng.cn/cplfw/index.html)]([http://www.whdeng.cn/cplfw/index.html](http://www.whdeng.cn/cplfw/index.html)), accessed on 23 February 2022, CFP [34]: [[http://www.cfpvio.org/cfp-dataset.zip](http://www.cfpvio.org/cfp-dataset.zip)]([http://www.cfpvio.org/cfp-dataset.zip](http://www.cfpvio.org/cfp-dataset.zip)), accessed on 23 February 2022, RMFD [35]: [[https://github.com/X-zhangyang/Real-World-Masked-Face-Dataset](https://github.com/X-zhangyang/Real-World-Masked-Face-Dataset)]([https://github.com/X-zhangyang/Real-World-Masked-Face-Dataset](https://github.com/X-zhangyang/Real-World-Masked-Face-Dataset)), accessed on 23 February 2022. The AFR-Conv model code is freely available on GitHub ([[https://github.com/Qaisar256/AFR-ConvMixer](https://github.com/Qaisar256/AFR-ConvMixer)]([https://github.com/Qaisar256/AFR-ConvMixer](https://github.com/Qaisar256/AFR-ConvMixer))) for the scientific community. This work was supported and funded by the Deanship of Scientific Research at Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University (IMSIU) (grant number IMSIU-RP23047). The authors declare no conflict of interest. ## References

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