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Deep learning-based face recognition (FR) technology exacerbates privacy concerns in photo sharing. In response, the research community developed a suite of anti-FR methods to block identity extraction by unauthorized FR systems. Benefiting…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Tao Wang , Yushu Zhang , Xiangli Xiao , Kun Xu , Lin Yuan , Wenying Wen , Yuming Fang

Deepfakes, synthetic media created using advanced AI techniques, pose a growing threat to information integrity, particularly in politically sensitive contexts. This challenge is amplified by the increasing realism of modern generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Victor Livernoche , Akshatha Arodi , Andreea Musulan , Zachary Yang , Adam Salvail , Gaétan Marceau Caron , Jean-François Godbout , Reihaneh Rabbany

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are now capable of producing synthetic face images of exceptionally high visual quality. In parallel to the development of GANs themselves, efforts have been made to develop metrics to objectively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Richard T. Marriott , Safa Madiouni , Sami Romdhani , Stéphane Gentric , Liming Chen

In the past decades, the excessive use of the last-generation GAN (Generative Adversarial Networks) models in computer vision has enabled the creation of artificial face images that are visually indistinguishable from genuine ones. These…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Ehsan Nowroozi , Mauro Conti , Yassine Mekdad

Learning image representations using synthetic data allows training neural networks without some of the concerns associated with real images, such as privacy and bias. Existing work focuses on a handful of curated generative processes which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Manel Baradad , Chun-Fu Chen , Jonas Wulff , Tongzhou Wang , Rogerio Feris , Antonio Torralba , Phillip Isola

Pushing by big data and deep convolutional neural network (CNN), the performance of face recognition is becoming comparable to human. Using private large scale training datasets, several groups achieve very high performance on LFW, i.e.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-12-01 Dong Yi , Zhen Lei , Shengcai Liao , Stan Z. Li

Over the past years, image generation and manipulation have achieved remarkable progress due to the rapid development of generative AI based on deep learning. Recent studies have devoted significant efforts to address the problem of face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Yuhang Lu , Touradj Ebrahimi

Recent advances in synthesizing realistic faces have shown that synthetic training data can replace real data for various face-related computer vision tasks. A question arises: how important is realism? Is the pursuit of photorealism…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Chirag Raman , Charlie Hewitt , Erroll Wood , Tadas Baltrusaitis

The capability of doing effective forensic analysis on printed and scanned (PS) images is essential in many applications. PS documents may be used to conceal the artifacts of images which is due to the synthetic nature of images since these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Ehsan Nowroozi , Yoosef Habibi , Mauro Conti

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are able to generate high resolution photo-realistic images of objects that "do not exist." These synthetic images are rather difficult to detect as fake. However, the manner in which these generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-14 Patrick Tinsley , Adam Czajka , Patrick Flynn

Last-generation GAN models allow to generate synthetic images which are visually indistinguishable from natural ones, raising the need to develop tools to distinguish fake and natural images thus contributing to preserve the trustworthiness…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-05 Mauro Barni , Kassem Kallas , Ehsan Nowroozi , Benedetta Tondi

AI-based image generation has continued to rapidly improve, producing increasingly more realistic images with fewer obvious visual flaws. AI-generated images are being used to create fake online profiles which in turn are being used for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Gonzalo J. Aniano Porcile , Jack Gindi , Shivansh Mundra , James R. Verbus , Hany Farid

Images of the eye are key in several computer vision problems, such as shape registration and gaze estimation. Recent large-scale supervised methods for these problems require time-consuming data collection and manual annotation, which can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-07 Erroll Wood , Tadas Baltrusaitis , Xucong Zhang , Yusuke Sugano , Peter Robinson , Andreas Bulling

This study investigates the possibility of mitigating the demographic biases that affect face recognition technologies through the use of synthetic data. Demographic biases have the potential to impact individuals from specific demographic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Pietro Melzi , Christian Rathgeb , Ruben Tolosana , Ruben Vera-Rodriguez , Aythami Morales , Dominik Lawatsch , Florian Domin , Maxim Schaubert

Deep networks trained on millions of facial images are believed to be closely approaching human-level performance in face recognition. However, open world face recognition still remains a challenge. Although, 3D face recognition has an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-03 Syed Zulqarnain Gilani , Ajmal Mian

Face sketch-photo synthesis is a critical application in law enforcement and digital entertainment industry where the goal is to learn the mapping between a face sketch image and its corresponding photo-realistic image. However, the limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-15 Hadi Kazemi , Fariborz Taherkhani , Nasser M. Nasrabadi

Recent face reenactment works are limited by the coarse reference landmarks, leading to unsatisfactory identity preserving performance due to the distribution gap between the manipulated landmarks and those sampled from a real person. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Haichao Zhang , Youcheng Ben , Weixi Zhang , Tao Chen , Gang Yu , Bin Fu

As Artificial Intelligence applications expand, the evaluation of models faces heightened scrutiny. Ensuring public readiness requires evaluation datasets, which differ from training data by being disjoint and ethically sourced in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Kassi Nzalasse , Rishav Raj , Eli Laird , Corey Clark

New advancements for the detection of synthetic images are critical for fighting disinformation, as the capabilities of generative AI models continuously evolve and can lead to hyper-realistic synthetic imagery at unprecedented scale and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Pantelis Dogoulis , Giorgos Kordopatis-Zilos , Ioannis Kompatsiaris , Symeon Papadopoulos

This paper addresses the problem of 3D human pose estimation in the wild. A significant challenge is the lack of training data, i.e., 2D images of humans annotated with 3D poses. Such data is necessary to train state-of-the-art CNN…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-13 Grégory Rogez , Cordelia Schmid