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In this paper, we propose a conceptually simple and geometrically interpretable objective function, i.e. additive margin Softmax (AM-Softmax), for deep face verification. In general, the face verification task can be viewed as a metric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-31 Feng Wang , Weiyang Liu , Haijun Liu , Jian Cheng

With the development of convolutional neural network, significant progress has been made in computer vision tasks. However, the commonly used loss function softmax loss and highly efficient network architecture for common visual tasks are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-27 Xianyang Li , Feng Wang , Qinghao Hu , Cong Leng

Face Recognition is one of the prominent problems in the computer vision domain. Witnessing advances in deep learning, significant work has been observed in face recognition, which touched upon various parts of the recognition framework…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-24 Yash Srivastava , Vaishnav Murali , Shiv Ram Dubey

Loss functions play a key role in training superior deep neural networks. In convolutional neural networks (CNNs), the popular cross entropy loss together with softmax does not explicitly guarantee minimization of intra-class variance or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-26 XiaoBin Li , WeiQiang Wang

We present a formulation of deep learning that aims at producing a large margin classifier. The notion of margin, minimum distance to a decision boundary, has served as the foundation of several theoretically profound and empirically…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-12-05 Gamaleldin F. Elsayed , Dilip Krishnan , Hossein Mobahi , Kevin Regan , Samy Bengio

Learning discriminative deep feature embeddings by using million-scale in-the-wild datasets and margin-based softmax loss is the current state-of-the-art approach for face recognition. However, the memory and computing cost of the Fully…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Xiang An , Jiankang Deng , Jia Guo , Ziyong Feng , Xuhan Zhu , Jing Yang , Tongliang Liu

Feature learning is a widely used method employed for large-scale face recognition. Recently, large-margin softmax loss methods have demonstrated significant enhancements on deep face recognition. These methods propose fixed positive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Chingis Oinar , Binh M. Le , Simon S. Woo

With the development of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in recent years, the network structure has become more and more complex and varied, and has achieved very good results in pattern recognition, image classification, object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-29 Qiuyu Zhu , Pengju Zhang , Xin Ye

We motivate and present Ring loss, a simple and elegant feature normalization approach for deep networks designed to augment standard loss functions such as Softmax. We argue that deep feature normalization is an important aspect of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-02 Yutong Zheng , Dipan K. Pal , Marios Savvides

Person recognition aims at recognizing the same identity across time and space with complicated scenes and similar appearance. In this paper, we propose a novel method to address this task by training a network to obtain robust and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-03 Yu Liu , Hongyang Li , Xiaogang Wang

Face recognition (FR) using deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) has seen remarkable success in recent years. One key ingredient of DCNN-based FR is the appropriate design of a loss function that ensures discrimination between various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Syed Safwan Khalid , Muhammad Awais , Chi-Ho Chan , Zhenhua Feng , Ammarah Farooq , Ali Akbari , Josef Kittler

Face recognition is an open-set problem requiring high discriminative power to ensure that intra-class distances remain smaller than inter-class distances. Margin-based softmax losses, such as SphereFace, CosFace, and ArcFace, have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Jinhui Zheng , Xueyuan Gong

Over the past few years, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have shown promise on facial expression recognition. However, the performance degrades dramatically under real-world settings due to variations introduced by subtle facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-26 Jie Cai , Zibo Meng , Ahmed Shehab Khan , Zhiyuan Li , James O'Reilly , Yan Tong

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNNs) and their variants have been widely used in large scale face recognition(FR) recently. Existing methods have achieved good performance on many FR benchmarks. However, most of them suffer from two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Jing Xu , Tszhang Guo , Yong Xu , Zenglin Xu , Kun Bai

The deep convolutional neural network(CNN) has significantly raised the performance of image classification and face recognition. Softmax is usually used as supervision, but it only penalizes the classification loss. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-24 Ce Qi , Fei Su

Softmax loss is arguably one of the most popular losses to train CNN models for image classification. However, recent works have exposed its limitation on feature discriminability. This paper casts a new viewpoint on the weakness of softmax…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-11 Xiaobo Wang , Shifeng Zhang , Zhen Lei , Si Liu , Xiaojie Guo , Stan Z. Li

Recognizability, a key perceptual factor in human face processing, strongly affects the performance of face recognition (FR) systems in both verification and identification tasks. Effectively using recognizability to enhance feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Duc-Phuong Doan-Ngo , Thanh-Dang Diep , Thanh Nguyen-Duc , Thanh-Sach LE , Nam Thoai

Researches using margin based comparison loss demonstrate the effectiveness of penalizing the distance between face feature and their corresponding class centers. Despite their popularity and excellent performance, they do not explicitly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-12 Ying Huang , Shangfeng Qiu , Wenwei Zhang , Xianghui Luo , Jinzhuo Wang

We propose a large-margin Gaussian Mixture (L-GM) loss for deep neural networks in classification tasks. Different from the softmax cross-entropy loss, our proposal is established on the assumption that the deep features of the training set…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-09 Weitao Wan , Yuanyi Zhong , Tianpeng Li , Jiansheng Chen

Face recognition (FR) methods report significant performance by adopting the convolutional neural network (CNN) based learning methods. Although CNNs are mostly trained by optimizing the softmax loss, the recent trend shows an improvement…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-10 Abul Hasnat , Julien Bohné , Jonathan Milgram , Stéphane Gentric , Liming Chen