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While Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) trained for image and video super-resolution (SR) regularly achieve new state-of-the-art performance, they also suffer from significant drawbacks. One of their limitations is their lack of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-16 Alice Lucas , Santiago Lopez-Tapia , Rafael Molina , Aggelos K. Katsaggelos

There are many factors affecting visual face recognition, such as low resolution images, aging, illumination and pose variance, etc. One of the most important problem is low resolution face images which can result in bad performance on face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-17 Bayram Bayramli , Usman Ali , Te Qi , Hongtao Lu

Face recognition is an important yet challenging problem in computer vision. A major challenge in practical face recognition applications lies in significant variations between profile and frontal faces. Traditional techniques address this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Xiaolong Yang , Xiaohong Jia , Dihong Gong , Dong-Ming Yan , Zhifeng Li , Wei Liu

As a domain-specific super-resolution problem, facial image hallucination has enjoyed a series of breakthroughs thanks to the advances of deep convolutional neural networks. However, the direct migration of existing methods to video is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Chaowei Fang , Guanbin Li , Xiaoguang Han , Yizhou Yu

Face super-resolution (FSR), also known as face hallucination, which is aimed at enhancing the resolution of low-resolution (LR) face images to generate high-resolution (HR) face images, is a domain-specific image super-resolution problem.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-02 Junjun Jiang , Chenyang Wang , Xianming Liu , Jiayi Ma

Facial expression recognition (FER) systems in low-resolution settings face significant challenges in accurately identifying expressions due to the loss of fine-grained facial details. This limitation is especially problematic for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Syed Sameen Ahmad Rizvi , Soham Kumar , Aryan Seth , Pratik Narang

Face super-resolution is a challenging and highly ill-posed problem since a low-resolution (LR) face image may correspond to multiple high-resolution (HR) ones during the hallucination process and cause a dramatic identity change for the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Nitin Balachandran , Jun-Cheng Chen , Rama Chellappa

Face hallucination, which is the task of generating a high-resolution face image from a low-resolution input image, is a well-studied problem that is useful in widespread application areas. Face hallucination is particularly challenging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-28 Oncel Tuzel , Yuichi Taguchi , John R. Hershey

This paper focuses on the problem of generating human face pictures from specific attributes. The existing CNN-based face generation models, however, either ignore the identity of the generated face or fail to preserve the identity of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-24 Mu Li , Wangmeng Zuo , David Zhang

Face super-resolution methods usually aim at producing visually appealing results rather than preserving distinctive features for further face identification. In this work, we propose a deep learning method for face verification on very…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-27 Esra Ataer-Cansizoglu , Michael Jones , Ziming Zhang , Alan Sullivan

This paper studies the single image super-resolution problem using adder neural networks (AdderNet). Compared with convolutional neural networks, AdderNet utilizing additions to calculate the output features thus avoid massive energy…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-05 Dehua Song , Yunhe Wang , Hanting Chen , Chang Xu , Chunjing Xu , Dacheng Tao

Facial Expressions Recognition(FER) on low-resolution images is necessary for applications like group expression recognition in crowd scenarios(station, classroom etc.). Classifying a small size facial image into the right expression…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Wei Jing , Feng Tian , Jizhong Zhang , Kuo-Ming Chao , Zhenxin Hong , Xu Liu

State-of-the-art face super-resolution methods employ deep convolutional neural networks to learn a mapping between low- and high- resolution facial patterns by exploring local appearance knowledge. However, most of these methods do not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Xiaobin Hu , Wenqi Ren , John LaMaster , Xiaochun Cao , Xiaoming Li , Zechao Li , Bjoern Menze , Wei Liu

Cross-resolution face recognition has become a challenging problem for modern deep face recognition systems. It aims at matching a low-resolution probe image with high-resolution gallery images registered in a database. Existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Yuhang Lu , Touradj Ebrahimi

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have recently achieved great success for single image super-resolution (SISR) task due to their powerful feature representation capabilities. The most recent deep learning based SISR methods focus…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-11 Rao Muhammad Umer , Gian Luca Foresti , Christian Micheloni

With the effective application of deep learning in computer vision, breakthroughs have been made in the research of super-resolution images reconstruction. However, many researches have pointed out that the insufficiency of the neural…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-11 Yibo Guo , Haidi Wang , Yiming Fan , Shunyao Li , Mingliang Xu

Super-resolution (SR) has achieved great success due to the development of deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs). However, as the depth and width of the networks increase, CNN-based SR methods have been faced with the challenge of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-10 Parichehr Behjati , Pau Rodriguez , Armin Mehri , Isabelle Hupont , Jordi Gonzalez , Carles Fernandez Tena

Portrait pictures, which typically feature both human subjects and natural backgrounds, are one of the most prevalent forms of photography on social media. Existing image super-resolution (ISR) techniques generally focus either on generic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Renjie Li , Zihao Zhu , Xiaoyu Wang , Zhengzhong Tu

With the goal of recovering high-quality image content from its degraded version, image restoration enjoys numerous applications, such as in surveillance, computational photography, medical imaging, and remote sensing. Recently,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Syed Waqas Zamir , Aditya Arora , Salman Khan , Munawar Hayat , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Ling Shao

Deep learning techniques have led to state-of-the-art image super resolution with natural images. Normally, pairs of high-resolution and low-resolution images are used to train the deep learning models. These techniques have also been…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-14 Yutaro Iwamoto , Kyohei Takeda , Yinhao Li , Akihiko Shiino , Yen-Wei Chen