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Facial expression recognition is an essential task for various applications, including emotion detection, mental health analysis, and human-machine interactions. In this paper, we propose a multi-modal facial expression recognition method…

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Detecting humans from airborne visual and thermal imagery is a fundamental challenge for Wilderness Search-and-Rescue (WiSAR) teams, who must perform this function accurately in the face of immense pressure. The ability to fuse these two…

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This report describes the solution that secured the first place in the "View Synthesis Challenge for Human Heads (VSCHH)" at the ICCV 2023 workshop. Given the sparse view images of human heads, the objective of this challenge is to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Ruijie Zhu , Jiahao Chang , Ziyang Song , Jiahuan Yu , Tianzhu Zhang

Facial expression recognition (FER) is vital for human-computer interaction and emotion analysis, yet recognizing expressions in low-resolution images remains challenging. This paper introduces a practical method called Dynamic Resolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Songpan Wang , Xu Li , Tianxiang Jiang , Yuanlun Xie

Recent studies have shown remarkable success in face manipulation task with the advance of GANs and VAEs paradigms, but the outputs are sometimes limited to low-resolution and lack of diversity. In this work, we propose Additive Focal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-21 Shengju Qian , Kwan-Yee Lin , Wayne Wu , Yangxiaokang Liu , Quan Wang , Fumin Shen , Chen Qian , Ran He

Facial attribute analysis has received considerable attention when deep learning techniques made remarkable breakthroughs in this field over the past few years. Deep learning based facial attribute analysis consists of two basic sub-issues:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Xin Zheng , Yanqing Guo , Huaibo Huang , Yi Li , Ran He

This work tackles the face recognition task on images captured using thermal camera sensors which can operate in the non-light environment. While it can greatly increase the scope and benefits of the current security surveillance systems,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-08 Teng Zhang , Arnold Wiliem , Siqi Yang , Brian C. Lovell

Blind face restoration is a highly ill-posed problem due to the lack of necessary context. Although existing methods produce high-quality outputs, they often fail to faithfully preserve the individual's identity. In this paper, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Siyu Liu , Zheng-Peng Duan , Jia OuYang , Jiayi Fu , Hyunhee Park , Zikun Liu , Chun-Le Guo , Chongyi Li

DEM analysis is a major diagnostic tool for stellar atmospheres. But both its derivation and its interpretation are notably difficult because of random and systematic errors, and the inverse nature of the problem. We use simulations with…

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Photothermal imaging is a powerful noncontact and nondestructive technique for subsurface inspection of composite materials, yet its performance is fundamentally limited by the diffusive and irreversible nature of heat transport, leading to…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-05-06 Pengfei Zhu , Julien Lecompagnon , Philipp Daniel Hirsch , Mathias Ziegler

Masked Image Modeling (MIM) has garnered significant attention in self-supervised learning, thanks to its impressive capacity to learn scalable visual representations tailored for downstream tasks. However, images inherently contain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Wenzhao Xiang , Chang Liu , Hongyang Yu , Xilin Chen

Infrared (IR)-transparent passive radiative cooling (PRC) enables non-contact thermal management by regulating radiative heat exchange without direct attachment to the cooling object. While asymmetric IR transmission at a specific incidence…

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Recognizing facial activity is a well-understood (but non-trivial) computer vision problem. However, reliable solutions require a camera with a good view of the face, which is often unavailable in wearable settings. Furthermore, in wearable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Hymalai Bello , Luis Alfredo Sanchez Marin , Sungho Suh , Bo Zhou , Paul Lukowicz

Many manufacturing environments operate in low-light conditions or within enclosed machines where conventional vision systems struggle. Infrared cameras provide complementary advantages in such environments. Simultaneously, supervised AI…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Nazanin Mahjourian , Vinh Nguyen

Thermal scene reconstruction holds great potential for various applications, such as analyzing building energy consumption and performing non-destructive infrastructure testing. However, existing methods typically require dense scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Mariam Hassan , Florent Forest , Olga Fink , Malcolm Mielle

As facial appearance is subject to significant intra-class variations caused by the aging process over time, age-invariant face recognition (AIFR) remains a major challenge in face recognition community. To reduce the intra-class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-18 Yitong Wang , Dihong Gong , Zheng Zhou , Xing Ji , Hao Wang , Zhifeng Li , Wei Liu , Tong Zhang

Biometric identification is a reliable method to verify individuals based on their unique physical or behavioral traits, offering a secure alternative to traditional methods like passwords or PINs. This study focuses on ear biometric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Youssef Mohamed , Zeyad Youssef , Ahmed Heakl , Ahmed Zaky

In this paper, we present an Attention-based Identity Preserving Generative Adversarial Network (AIP-GAN) to overcome the identity leakage problem from a source image to a generated face image, an issue that is encountered in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-04 Kamran Ali , Charles E. Hughes

Adsorption breakthrough modeling often requires complex software environments and scripting, limiting accessibility for many practitioners. We present AIM, a MATLAB-based graphical user interface (GUI) application that streamlines fixed-bed…

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) system typically employ vision-based sensors to observe the surrounding environment. However, the performance of such systems highly depends on the ambient illumination conditions. In scenarios…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Muhamad Risqi U. Saputra , Chris Xiaoxuan Lu , Pedro P. B. de Gusmao , Bing Wang , Andrew Markham , Niki Trigoni