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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

In this paper, we introduce deep learning technology to tackle two traditional low-level image processing problems, companding and inverse halftoning. We make two main contributions. First, to the best knowledge of the authors, this is the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-24 Xianxu Hou , Guoping Qiu

Currently, the rapid development of computer vision and deep learning has enabled the creation or manipulation of high-fidelity facial images and videos via deep generative approaches. This technology, also known as deepfake, has achieved…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Lixia Ma , Puning Yang , Yuting Xu , Ziming Yang , Peipei Li , Huaibo Huang

We propose a fast, accurate matching method for estimating dense pixel correspondences across scenes. It is a challenging problem to estimate dense pixel correspondences between images depicting different scenes or instances of the same…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-04-24 Chao Zhang , Chunhua Shen , Tingzhi Shen

Facial feature tracking is an active area in computer vision due to its relevance to many applications. It is a nontrivial task, since faces may have varying facial expressions, poses or occlusions. In this paper, we address this problem by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-19 Yue Wu , Zuoguan Wang , Qiang Ji

Face alignment aims to estimate the locations of a set of landmarks for a given image. This problem has received much attention as evidenced by the recent advancement in both the methodology and performance. However, most of the existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-06-12 Amin Jourabloo , Xiaoming Liu

Deep facial expression recognition faces two challenges that both stem from the large number of trainable parameters: long training times and a lack of interpretability. We propose a novel method based on evolutionary algorithms, that deals…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Emmanuel Dufourq , Bruce A. Bassett

Forced alignment refers to a technology that time-aligns a given transcription with a corresponding speech. However, as the forced alignment technologies have developed using speech audio, they might fail in alignment when the input speech…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Minsu Kim , Chae Won Kim , Yong Man Ro

With the spread of DeepFake techniques, this technology has become quite accessible and good enough that there is concern about its malicious use. Faced with this problem, detecting forged faces is of utmost importance to ensure security…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Gustavo Cunha Lacerda , Raimundo Claudio da Silva Vasconcelos

This paper proposes a robust approach for face detection and gender classification in color images. Previous researches about gender recognition suppose an expensive computational and time-consuming pre-processing step in order to alignment…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-08-09 Sahar Yousefi , Morteza Zahedi

Recent generative models demonstrate impressive performance on synthesizing photographic images, which makes humans hardly to distinguish them from pristine ones, especially on realistic-looking synthetic facial images. Previous works…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Hao Wang , Cheng Deng , Zhidong Zhao

Automated Facial Expression Recognition (FER) has remained a challenging and interesting problem. Despite efforts made in developing various methods for FER, existing approaches traditionally lack generalizability when applied to unseen…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Ali Mollahosseini , David Chan , Mohammad H. Mahoor

How to extract significant point cloud features and estimate the pose between them remains a challenging question, due to the inherent lack of structure and ambiguous order permutation of point clouds. Despite significant improvements in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Zhu Xu , Zhengyao Bai , Huijie Liu , Qianjie Lu , Shenglan Fan

Accurate analysis and classification of facial attributes are essential in various applications, from human-computer interaction to security systems. In this work, a novel approach to enhance facial classification and recognition tasks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Houting Li , Mengxuan Dong , Lok Ming Lui

Facial expression classification remains a challenging task due to the high dimensionality and inherent complexity of facial image data. This paper presents Hy-Facial, a hybrid feature extraction framework that integrates both deep learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Xinjin Li , Yu Ma , Kaisen Ye , Jinghan Cao , Minghao Zhou , Yeyang Zhou

Face alignment, which fits a face model to an image and extracts the semantic meanings of facial pixels, has been an important topic in the computer vision community. However, most algorithms are designed for faces in small to medium poses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-04 Xiangyu Zhu , Xiaoming Liu , Zhen Lei , Stan Z. Li

Liquify is a common technique for image editing, which can be used for image distortion. Due to the uncertainty in the distortion variation, restoring distorted images caused by liquify filter is a challenging task. To edit images in an…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-30 Yi Gu , Yuting Gao , Jie Li , Chentao Wu , Weijia Jia

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

Face restoration (FR) is a specialized field within image restoration that aims to recover low-quality (LQ) face images into high-quality (HQ) face images. Recent advances in deep learning technology have led to significant progress in FR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Wenjie Li , Mei Wang , Kai Zhang , Juncheng Li , Xiaoming Li , Yuhang Zhang , Guangwei Gao , Weihong Deng , Chia-Wen Lin

Recent advances in deep learning have significantly increased the performance of face recognition systems. The performance and reliability of these models depend heavily on the amount and quality of the training data. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-19 Adam Kortylewski , Andreas Schneider , Thomas Gerig , Bernhard Egger , Andreas Morel-Forster , Thomas Vetter