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Computational social scientists often harness the Web as a "societal observatory" where data about human social behavior is collected. This data enables novel investigations of psychological, anthropological and sociological research…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2016-03-15 Fariba Karimi , Claudia Wagner , Florian Lemmerich , Mohsen Jadidi , Markus Strohmaier

We propose a method to address challenges in unconstrained face detection, such as arbitrary pose variations and occlusions. First, a new image feature called Normalized Pixel Difference (NPD) is proposed. NPD feature is computed as the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-09-08 Shengcai Liao , Anil K. Jain , Stan Z. Li

This paper presents a novel approach in a rarely studied area of computer vision: Human interaction recognition in still images. We explore whether the facial regions and their spatial configurations contribute to the recognition of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-09-18 Gokhan Tanisik , Cemil Zalluhoglu , Nazli Ikizler-Cinbis

Face recognition from a single image per person is a challenging problem because the training sample is extremely small. We consider a variation of this problem. In our problem, we recognize only one person, and there are no labeled data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Branislav Kveton , Michal Valko

We present a minimalistic but effective neural network that computes dense facial correspondences in highly unconstrained RGB images. Our network learns a per-pixel flow and a matchability mask between 2D input photographs of a person and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-05 Ronald Yu , Shunsuke Saito , Haoxiang Li , Duygu Ceylan , Hao Li

In this paper we address the task of gender classification on picture sharing social media networks such as Instagram and Flickr. We aim to infer the gender of an user given only a small set of the images shared in its profile. We make the…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2018-10-11 David Semedo , João Magalhães , Flávio Martins

In current biological and medical research, statistical shape modeling (SSM) provides an essential framework for the characterization of anatomy/morphology. Such analysis is often driven by the identification of a relatively small number of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Riddhish Bhalodia , Shireen Elhabian , Ladislav Kavan , Ross Whitaker

The human hand possesses distinctive features which can reveal gender information. In addition, the hand is considered one of the primary biometric traits used to identify a person. In this work, we propose a large dataset of human hand…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-18 Mahmoud Afifi

Current face recognition systems robustly recognize identities across a wide variety of imaging conditions. In these systems recognition is performed via classification into known identities obtained from supervised identity annotations.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Daniel C. Castro , Sebastian Nowozin

In this paper, we present multimodal deep neural network frameworks for age and gender classification, which take input a profile face image as well as an ear image. Our main objective is to enhance the accuracy of soft biometric trait…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-25 Dogucan Yaman , Fevziye Irem Eyiokur , Hazım Kemal Ekenel

Accurate gender recognition from extreme long-range imagery remains a challenging problem due to limited spatial resolution, viewpoint variability, and loss of facial cues. For such purpose, we present a dual-path transformer framework that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Nzakiese Mbongo , Kailash A. Hambarde , Hugo Proença

This paper presents a multi-pose face recognition approach using hybrid face features descriptors (HFFD). The HFFD is a face descriptor containing of rich discriminant information that is created by fusing some frequency-based features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-14 I Gede Pasek Suta Wijaya , Keiichi Uchimura , Gou Koutaki

Gender is one of the most common attributes used to describe an individual. It is used in multiple domains such as human computer interaction, marketing, security, and demographic reports. Research has been performed to automate the task of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Maneet Singh , Shruti Nagpal , Richa Singh , Mayank Vatsa

The main idea of this paper is that if a model can recognize a person, of course, it must be able to know the gender of that person, too. Therefore, instead of defining a new model for gender classification, this paper uses ArcFace features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Majid Farzaneh

We address the use of selfie ocular images captured with smartphones to estimate age and gender. Partial face occlusion has become an issue due to the mandatory use of face masks. Also, the use of mobile devices has exploded, with the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Fernando Alonso-Fernandez , Kevin Hernandez Diaz , Silvia Ramis , Francisco J. Perales , Josef Bigun

Soft biometrics inference in surveillance scenarios is a topic of interest for various applications, particularly in security-related areas. However, soft biometric analysis is not extensively reported in wild conditions. In particular,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Tiago Roxo , Hugo Proença

Although deep learning approaches have achieved performance surpassing humans for still image-based face recognition, unconstrained video-based face recognition is still a challenging task due to large volume of data to be processed and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-13 Jingxiao Zheng , Rajeev Ranjan , Ching-Hui Chen , Jun-Cheng Chen , Carlos D. Castillo , Rama Chellappa

Realistic age-progressed photos provide invaluable biometric information in a wide range of applications. In recent years, deep learning-based approaches have made remarkable progress in modeling the aging process of the human face.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Yao Xiao , Yijun Zhao

This article is a sequel to our earlier work [25]. The main objective of our research is to explore the potential of supervised machine learning in face-induced social computing and cognition, riding on the momentum of much heralded…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-26 Xiaolin Wu , Xi Zhang , Chang Liu

Open-set face recognition describes a scenario where unknown subjects, unseen during the training stage, appear on test time. Not only it requires methods that accurately identify individuals of interest, but also demands approaches that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Rafael Henrique Vareto , William Robson Schwartz