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Multi-task learning aims to improve generalization performance of multiple prediction tasks by appropriately sharing relevant information across them. In the context of deep neural networks, this idea is often realized by hand-designed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Yongxi Lu , Abhishek Kumar , Shuangfei Zhai , Yu Cheng , Tara Javidi , Rogerio Feris

In the realm of deep learning, spatial attention mechanisms have emerged as a vital method for enhancing the performance of convolutional neural networks. However, these mechanisms possess inherent limitations that cannot be overlooked.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Xin Zhang , Chen Liu , Degang Yang , Tingting Song , Yichen Ye , Ke Li , Yingze Song

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) can automatically learn data patterns to express face images for facial expression recognition (FER). However, they may ignore effect of facial segmentation of FER. In this paper, we propose a perception…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Chunwei Tian , Jingyuan Xie , Lingjun Li , Wangmeng Zuo , Yanning Zhang , David Zhang

Link prediction and node classification are two important downstream tasks of network representation learning. Existing methods have achieved acceptable results but they perform these two tasks separately, which requires a lot of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-03-04 Hong Huang , Yu Song , Yao Wu , Jia Shi , Xia Xie , Hai Jin

Face recognition has witnessed significant progress due to the advances of deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs), the central task of which is how to improve the feature discrimination. To this end, several margin-based (\textit{e.g.},…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Xiaobo Wang , Shifeng Zhang , Shuo Wang , Tianyu Fu , Hailin Shi , Tao Mei

Face attribute estimation has many potential applications in video surveillance, face retrieval, and social media. While a number of methods have been proposed for face attribute estimation, most of them did not explicitly consider the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-29 Hu Han , Anil K. Jain , Fang Wang , Shiguang Shan , Xilin Chen

In recent years, deep convolutional neural networks (CNN) have significantly advanced face detection. In particular, lightweight CNNbased architectures have achieved great success due to their lowcomplexity structure facilitating real-time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Guangtao Wang , Jun Li , Zhijian Wu , Jianhua Xu , Jifeng Shen , Wankou Yang

Automatic kinship verification from facial images is an emerging research topic in machine learning community. In this paper, we proposed an effective facial features extraction model based on multi-view deep features. Thus, we used four…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-03 Oualid Laiadi , Abdelmalik Ouamane , Abdelhamid Benakcha , Abdelmalik Taleb-Ahmed , Abdenour Hadid

Attributes, or semantic features, have gained popularity in the past few years in domains ranging from activity recognition in video to face verification. Improving the accuracy of attribute classifiers is an important first step in any…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-26 Emily M. Hand , Rama Chellappa

Deep learning methods are powerful tools but often suffer from expensive computation and limited flexibility. An alternative is to combine light-weight models with deep representations. As successful cases exist in several visual problems,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-09-25 Bin Yang , Junjie Yan , Zhen Lei , Stan Z. Li

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have recently been shown to excel at performing visual place recognition under changing appearance and viewpoint. Previously, place recognition has been improved by intelligently selecting relevant…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-10-31 Stephen Hausler , Adam Jacobson , Michael Milford

Face Recognition has been studied for many decades. As opposed to traditional hand-crafted features such as LBP and HOG, much more sophisticated features can be learned automatically by deep learning methods in a data-driven way. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-07-24 Jingtuo Liu , Yafeng Deng , Tao Bai , Zhengping Wei , Chang Huang

Facial attributes are soft-biometrics that allow limiting the search space, e.g., by rejecting identities with non-matching facial characteristics such as nose sizes or eyebrow shapes. In this paper, we investigate how the latest versions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Manuel Günther , Andras Rozsa , Terrance E. Boult

We propose a self-supervised framework for learning facial attributes by simply watching videos of a human face speaking, laughing, and moving over time. To perform this task, we introduce a network, Facial Attributes-Net (FAb-Net), that is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-22 Olivia Wiles , A. Sophia Koepke , Andrew Zisserman

Face recognition is one of the most widely publicized feature in the devices today and hence represents an important problem that should be studied with the utmost priority. As per the recent trends, the Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-07 Yash Srivastava , Vaishnav Murali , Shiv Ram Dubey

Facial expression recognition is a challenging task when neural network is applied to pattern recognition. Most of the current recognition research is based on single source facial data, which generally has the disadvantages of low accuracy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Yi Han , Xubin Wang , Zhengyu Lu

Face recognition has evolved as a widely used biometric modality. However, its vulnerability against presentation attacks poses a significant security threat. Though presentation attack detection (PAD) methods try to address this issue,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-23 Anjith George , Sebastien Marcel

Predicting facial attributes from faces in the wild is very challenging due to pose and lighting variations in the real world. The key to this problem is to build proper feature representations to cope with these unfavourable conditions.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-22 Yang Zhong , Josephine Sullivan , Haibo Li

This paper expands the cascaded network branch of the autoencoder-based multi-task learning (MTL) framework for dynamic facial expression recognition, namely Multi-Task Cascaded Autoencoder for Dynamic Facial Expression Recognition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Peihao Xiang , Kaida Wu , Ou Bai

Cascade regression framework has been shown to be effective for facial landmark detection. It starts from an initial face shape and gradually predicts the face shape update from the local appearance features to generate the facial landmark…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-26 Yue Wu , Qiang Ji