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Imaging"],"abstract":"<jats:p>Masked face recognition (MFR) is an interesting topic in which researchers have tried to find a better solution to improve and enhance performance. Recently, COVID-19 caused most of the recognition system fails to recognize facial images since the current face recognition cannot accurately capture or detect masked face images. This paper introduces the proposed method known as histogram-based recurrent neural network (HRNN) MFR to solve the undetected masked face problem. The proposed method includes the feature descriptor of histograms of oriented gradients (HOG) as the feature extraction process and recurrent neural network (RNN) as the deep learning process. We have proven that the combination of both approaches works well and achieves a high true acceptance rate (TAR) of 99 percent. In addition, the proposed method is designed to overcome the underfitting problem and reduce computational burdens with large-scale dataset training. 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