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Video facial expression recognition is useful for many applications and received much interest lately. Although some solutions give really good results in a controlled environment (no occlusion), recognition in the presence of partial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Delphine Poux , Benjamin Allaert , Nacim Ihaddadene , Ioan Marius Bilasco , Chaabane Djeraba , Mohammed Bennamoun

A key step to driver safety is to observe the driver's activities with the face being a key step in this process to extracting information such as head pose, blink rate, yawns, talking to passenger which can then help derive higher level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-08 Kevan Yuen , Mohan M. Trivedi

Whole-body pose and shape estimation aims to jointly predict different behaviors (e.g., pose, hand gesture, facial expression) of the entire human body from a monocular image. Existing methods often exhibit degraded performance under the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Hui EnPang , Zhongang Cai , Lei Yang , Qingyi Tao , Zhonghua Wu , Tianwei Zhang , Ziwei Liu

In this paper we propose an iterative method to address the face identification problem with block occlusions. Our approach utilizes a robust representation based on two characteristics in order to model contiguous errors (e.g., block…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Michael Iliadis , Haohong Wang , Rafael Molina , Aggelos K. Katsaggelos

Facial action units (FAUs) are critical for fine-grained facial expression analysis. Although FAU detection has been actively studied using ideally high quality images, it was not thoroughly studied under heavily occluded conditions. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Minyang Jiang , Yongwei Wang , Martin J. McKeown , Z. Jane Wang

This paper presents regression methods for estimation of head pose from occluded 2-D face images. The process primarily involves reconstructing a face from its occluded image, followed by classification. Typical methods for reconstruction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-02-03 Amit Kumar , Rishabh Bindal , Soumya Indela , Michael Rotkowitz

Practical object pose estimation demands robustness against occlusions to the target object. State-of-the-art (SOTA) object pose estimators take a two-stage approach, where the first stage predicts 2D landmarks using a deep network and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Bo Chen , Tat-Jun Chin , Marius Klimavicius

We introduce a novel method for robust and accurate 3D object pose estimation from a single color image under large occlusions. Following recent approaches, we first predict the 2D projections of 3D points related to the target object and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Markus Oberweger , Mahdi Rad , Vincent Lepetit

Accurate 6D object pose estimation is vital for robotics, augmented reality, and scene understanding. For seen objects, high accuracy is often attainable via per-object fine-tuning but generalizing to unseen objects remains a challenge. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Sajjad Pakdamansavoji , Yintao Ma , Amir Rasouli , Tongtong Cao

Facial pose estimation has gained a lot of attentions in many practical applications, such as human-robot interaction, gaze estimation and driver monitoring. Meanwhile, end-to-end deep learning-based facial pose estimation is becoming more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Zhaoxiang Liu , Zezhou Chen , Jinqiang Bai , Shaohua Li , Shiguo Lian

Image matching is a fundamental and critical task in various visual applications, such as Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) and image retrieval, which require accurate pose estimation. However, most existing methods ignore the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Miao Fan , Mingrui Chen , Chen Hu , Shuchang Zhou

R}easoning for Robust Human Pose and Shape Estimation), designed to estimate human body shape and pose from single-view images. ReBaR effectively addresses the challenges of occlusions and depth ambiguity by learning reference features for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Yongkang Cheng , Mingjiang Liang , Jifeng Ning , Gaoge Han , Wei Liu , Shaoli Huang

Registering a 3D facial model to a 2D image under occlusion is difficult. First, not all of the detected facial landmarks are accurate under occlusions. Second, the number of reliable landmarks may not be enough to constrain the problem. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-04 Yuhang Wu , Ioannis A. Kakadiaris

Facial appearance variations due to occlusion has been one of the main challenges for face recognition systems. To facilitate further research in this area, it is necessary and important to have occluded face datasets collected from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Mustafa Ekrem Erakın , Uğur Demir , Hazım Kemal Ekenel

Occlusion in face recognition is a common yet challenging problem. While sparse representation based classification (SRC) has been shown promising performance in laboratory conditions (i.e. noiseless or random pixel corrupted), it performs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-07-28 Yandong Wen , Weiyang Liu , Meng Yang , Yuli Fu , Youjun Xiang , Rui Hu

In this paper, we address a key limitation of existing 2D face recognition methods: robustness to occlusions. To accomplish this task, we systematically analyzed the impact of facial attributes on the performance of a state-of-the-art face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-15 Xiang Xu , Nikolaos Sarafianos , Ioannis A. Kakadiaris

Human Pose Estimation (HPE) involves detecting and localizing keypoints on the human body from visual data. In 3D HPE, occlusions, where parts of the body are not visible in the image, pose a significant challenge for accurate pose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Filipa Lino , Carlos Santiago , Manuel Marques

Applications of diffusion models for visual tasks have been quite noteworthy. This paper targets making classification models more robust to occlusions for the task of object recognition by proposing a pipeline that utilizes a frozen…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Rupayan Mallick , Sibo Dong , Nataniel Ruiz , Sarah Adel Bargal

We present a method that can recognize new objects and estimate their 3D pose in RGB images even under partial occlusions. Our method requires neither a training phase on these objects nor real images depicting them, only their CAD models.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Van Nguyen Nguyen , Yinlin Hu , Yang Xiao , Mathieu Salzmann , Vincent Lepetit

Human pose estimation aims at locating the specific joints of humans from the images or videos. While existing deep learning-based methods have achieved high positioning accuracy, they often struggle with generalization in occlusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Gangtao Han , Chunxiao Song , Song Wang , Hao Wang , Enqing Chen , Guanghui Wang