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Face aging is the task aiming to translate the faces in input images to designated ages. To simplify the problem, previous methods have limited themselves only able to produce discrete age groups, each of which consists of ten years.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-01 Seogkyu Jeon , Pilhyeon Lee , Kibeom Hong , Hyeran Byun

We present a novel deep learning approach to synthesize complete face images in the presence of large ocular region occlusions. This is motivated by recent surge of VR/AR displays that hinder face-to-face communications. Different from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-25 Yajie Zhao , Weikai Chen , Jun Xing , Xiaoming Li , Zach Bessinger , Fuchang Liu , Wangmeng Zuo , Ruigang Yang

Reversible face anonymization, unlike traditional face pixelization, seeks to replace sensitive identity information in facial images with synthesized alternatives, preserving privacy without sacrificing image clarity. Traditional methods,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Haoxin Yang , Xuemiao Xu , Cheng Xu , Huaidong Zhang , Jing Qin , Yi Wang , Pheng-Ann Heng , Shengfeng He

Face occlusions, covering either the majority or discriminative parts of the face, can break facial perception and produce a drastic loss of information. Biometric systems such as recent deep face recognition models are not immune to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-10 Joe Mathai , Iacopo Masi , Wael AbdAlmageed

Fine-grained semantic segmentation of a person's face and head, including facial parts and head components, has progressed a great deal in recent years. However, it remains a challenging task, whereby considering ambiguous occlusions and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Lei Li , Tianfang Zhang , Zhongfeng Kang , Xikun Jiang

Full face synthesis and partial face manipulation by virtue of the generative adversarial networks (GANs) and its variants have raised wide public concerns. In the multi-media forensics area, detecting and ultimately locating the image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-24 Yihao Huang , Felix Juefei-Xu , Qing Guo , Yang Liu , Geguang Pu

For a data holder, such as a hospital or a government entity, who has a privately held collection of personal data, in which the revealing and/or processing of the personal identifiable data is restricted and prohibited by law. Then, "how…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-18 Yi-Lun Pan , Min-Jhih Huang , Kuo-Teng Ding , Ja-Ling Wu , Jyh-Shing Jang

There is a growing privacy concern due to the popularity of social media and surveillance systems, along with advances in face recognition software. However, established image obfuscation techniques are either vulnerable to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Tao Li , Min Soo Choi

Face completion aims to generate semantically new pixels for missing facial components. It is a challenging generative task due to large variations of face appearance. This paper studies generative face completion under structured…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-14 Zhihang Li , Yibo Hu , Ran He

Face recognition based on the deep convolutional neural networks (CNN) shows superior accuracy performance attributed to the high discriminative features extracted. Yet, the security and privacy of the extracted features from deep learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Xingbo Dong , Zhihui Miao , Lan Ma , Jiajun Shen , Zhe Jin , Zhenhua Guo , Andrew Beng Jin Teoh

Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) have led to the generation of very realistic face images, which have been used in fake social media accounts and other disinformation matters that can generate profound impacts. Therefore, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Xin Wang , Hui Guo , Shu Hu , Ming-Ching Chang , Siwei Lyu

We present a framework that uses GAN-augmented images to complement certain specific attributes, usually underrepresented, for machine learning model training. This allows us to improve inference quality over those attributes for the facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Shuo Cheng , Guoxian Song , Wan-Chun Ma , Chao Wang , Linjie Luo

We present a novel framework to generate images of different age while preserving identity information, which is known as face aging. Different from most recent popular face aging networks utilizing Generative Adversarial Networks(GANs)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-12 Zipeng Wang , Zhaoxiang Liu , Jianfeng Huang , Shiguo Lian , Yimin Lin

Images posted online present a privacy concern in that they may be used as reference examples for a facial recognition system. Such abuse of images is in violation of privacy rights but is difficult to counter. It is well established that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-09 Andrew Merrigan , Alan F. Smeaton

We propose a generative framework based on generative adversarial network (GAN) to enhance facial attractiveness while preserving facial identity and high-fidelity. Given a portrait image as input, having applied gradient descent to recover…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-05 Yuhongze Zhou , Qinjie Xiao

The modern surge in camera usage alongside widespread computer vision technology applications poses significant privacy and security concerns. Current artificial intelligence (AI) technologies aid in recognizing relevant events and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Jhon Lopez , Carlos Hinojosa , Henry Arguello , Bernard Ghanem

We present a novel variational generative adversarial network (VGAN) based on Wasserstein loss to learn a latent representation from a face image that is invariant to identity but preserves head-pose information. This facilitates synthesis…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Hiroki Kawai , Jiawei Chen , Prakash Ishwar , Janusz Konrad

We demonstrate that modern image recognition methods based on artificial neural networks can recover hidden information from images protected by various forms of obfuscation. The obfuscation techniques considered in this paper are mosaicing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-09-08 Richard McPherson , Reza Shokri , Vitaly Shmatikov

Despite the generative model's groundbreaking success, the need to study its implications for privacy and utility becomes more urgent. Although many studies have demonstrated the privacy threats brought by GANs, no existing survey has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Debalina Padariya , Isabel Wagner , Aboozar Taherkhani , Eerke Boiten

Eye gaze contains rich information about human attention and cognitive processes. This capability makes the underlying technology, known as gaze tracking, a critical enabler for many ubiquitous applications and has triggered the development…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Lingyu Du , Jinyuan Jia , Xucong Zhang , Guohao Lan