  This work summarizes the IJCB Occluded Face Recognition Competition 2022
(IJCB-OCFR-2022) embraced by the 2022 International Joint Conference on
Biometrics (IJCB 2022). OCFR-2022 attracted a total of 3 participating teams,
from academia. Eventually, six valid submissions were submitted and then
evaluated by the organizers. The competition was held to address the challenge
of face recognition in the presence of severe face occlusions. The participants
were free to use any training data and the testing data was built by the
organisers by synthetically occluding parts of the face images using a
well-known dataset. The submitted solutions presented innovations and performed
very competitively with the considered baseline. A major output of this
competition is a challenging, realistic, and diverse, and publicly available
occluded face recognition benchmark with well defined evaluation protocols.
