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Generic face detection algorithms do not perform well in the mobile domain due to significant presence of occluded and partially visible faces. One promising technique to handle the challenge of partial faces is to design face detectors…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-10 Upal Mahbub , Sayantan Sarkar , Rama Chellappa

Photos of faces captured in unconstrained environments, such as large crowds, still constitute challenges for current face recognition approaches as often faces are occluded by objects or people in the foreground. However, few studies have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Stefan Hörmann , Zeyuan Zhang , Martin Knoche , Torben Teepe , Gerhard Rigoll

Face detection has witnessed significant progress due to the advances of deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Its central issue in recent years is how to improve the detection performance of tiny faces. To this end, many recent works…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-27 Faen Zhang , Xinyu Fan , Guo Ai , Jianfei Song , Yongqiang Qin , Jiahong Wu

Semantic segmentation and instance level segmentation made substantial progress in recent years due to the emergence of deep neural networks (DNNs). A number of deep architectures with Convolution Neural Networks (CNNs) were proposed that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-18 Pulak Purkait , Christopher Zach , Ian Reid

Detecting partially occluded objects is a difficult task. Our experimental results show that deep learning approaches, such as Faster R-CNN, are not robust at object detection under occlusion. Compositional convolutional neural networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Angtian Wang , Yihong Sun , Adam Kortylewski , Alan Yuille

Face recognition remains a challenging task in unconstrained scenarios, especially when faces are partially occluded. To improve the robustness against occlusion, augmenting the training images with artificial occlusions has been proved as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Mingjie He , Jie Zhang , Shiguang Shan , Xiao Liu , Zhongqin Wu , Xilin Chen

The increasing number of autonomous vehicles and the rapid development of computer vision technologies underscore the particular importance of conducting research on the accuracy of traffic sign recognition. Numerous studies in this field…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Gulnaz Gimaletdinova , Dim Shaiakhmetov , Madina Akpaeva , Mukhammadmuso Abduzhabbarov , Kadyrmamat Momunov

State-of-the-art methods of attribute detection from faces almost always assume the presence of a full, unoccluded face. Hence, their performance degrades for partially visible and occluded faces. In this paper, we introduce SPLITFACE, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-19 Upal Mahbub , Sayantan Sarkar , Rama Chellappa

Grid maps are widely used in robotics to represent obstacles in the environment and differentiating dynamic objects from static infrastructure is essential for many practical applications. In this work, we present a methods that uses a deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-12 Florian Piewak , Timo Rehfeld , Michael Weber , J. Marius Zöllner

Robust face detection in the wild is one of the ultimate components to support various facial related problems, i.e. unconstrained face recognition, facial periocular recognition, facial landmarking and pose estimation, facial expression…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-20 Chenchen Zhu , Yutong Zheng , Khoa Luu , Marios Savvides

We exploit the mathematical modeling of the border completion problem in the visual cortex to design convolutional neural network (CNN) filters that enhance robustness to image occlusions. We evaluate our CNN architecture, BorderNet, on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Catarina P. Coutinho , Aneeqa Merhab , Janko Petkovic , Ferdinando Zanchetta , Rita Fioresi

Age estimation of face images is a crucial task with various practical applications in areas such as video surveillance and Internet access control. While deep learning-based age estimation frameworks, e.g., convolutional neural network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-03 Yuntao Shou , Xiangyong Cao , Deyu Meng

The Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) has achieved great success in image classification. The classification model can also be utilized at image or patch level for many other applications, such as object detection and segmentation. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-12-23 Jun Yuan , Bingbing Ni , Ashraf A. Kassim

This paper proposes a novel object detection framework named Grid R-CNN, which adopts a grid guided localization mechanism for accurate object detection. Different from the traditional regression based methods, the Grid R-CNN captures the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-30 Xin Lu , Buyu Li , Yuxin Yue , Quanquan Li , Junjie Yan

Convolutional neural networks (CNN) define the state-of-the-art solution on many perceptual tasks. However, current CNN approaches largely remain vulnerable against adversarial perturbations of the input that have been crafted specifically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Peter Lorenz , Margret Keuper , Janis Keuper

We present a novel convolutional neural network (CNN) design for facial landmark coordinate regression. We examine the intermediate features of a standard CNN trained for landmark detection and show that features extracted from later, more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-03-23 Yue Wu , Tal Hassner , KangGeon Kim , Gerard Medioni , Prem Natarajan

We present a novel deep learning approach to synthesize complete face images in the presence of large ocular region occlusions. This is motivated by recent surge of VR/AR displays that hinder face-to-face communications. Different from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-25 Yajie Zhao , Weikai Chen , Jun Xing , Xiaoming Li , Zach Bessinger , Fuchang Liu , Wangmeng Zuo , Ruigang Yang

The limited capacity to recognize faces under occlusions is a long-standing problem that presents a unique challenge for face recognition systems and even for humans. The problem regarding occlusion is less covered by research when compared…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Dan Zeng , Raymond Veldhuis , Luuk Spreeuwers

Pedestrian detection relying on deep convolution neural networks has made significant progress. Though promising results have been achieved on standard pedestrians, the performance on heavily occluded pedestrians remains far from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-16 Yanwei Pang , Jin Xie , Muhammad Haris Khan , Rao Muhammad Anwer , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Ling Shao

Occlusion edges in images which correspond to range discontinuity in the scene from the point of view of the observer are an important prerequisite for many vision and mobile robot tasks. Although they can be extracted from range data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-07-09 Soumik Sarkar , Vivek Venugopalan , Kishore Reddy , Michael Giering , Julian Ryde , Navdeep Jaitly