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Face privacy-preserving is one of the hotspots that arises dramatic interests of research. However, the existing face privacy-preserving methods aim at causing the missing of semantic information of face and cannot preserve the reusability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Yang Yang , Yiyang Huang , Ming Shi , Kejiang Chen , Weiming Zhang , Nenghai Yu

Facial video inpainting plays a crucial role in a wide range of applications, including but not limited to the removal of obstructions in video conferencing and telemedicine, enhancement of facial expression analysis, privacy protection,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Fatemeh Ghorbani Lohesara , Karen Egiazarian , Sebastian Knorr

Generating high fidelity identity-preserving faces with different facial attributes has a wide range of applications. Although a number of generative models have been developed to tackle this problem, there is still much room for further…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Dan Ma , Bin Liu , Zhao Kang , Jiayu Zhou , Jianke Zhu , Zenglin Xu

Combined variations containing low-resolution and occlusion often present in face images in the wild, e.g., under the scenario of video surveillance. While most of the existing face image recovery approaches can handle only one type of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Jiancheng Cai , Hu Han , Shiguang Shan , Xilin Chen

In this paper, we propose a novel algorithm for matching faces with temporal variations caused due to age progression. The proposed generative adversarial network algorithm is a unified framework that combines facial age estimation and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Daksha Yadav , Naman Kohli , Mayank Vatsa , Richa Singh , Afzel Noore

Face recognition performance based on deep learning heavily relies on large-scale training data, which is often difficult to acquire in practical applications. To address this challenge, this paper proposes a GAN-based data augmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Zhongwen Li , Zongwei Li , Xiaoqi Li

We demonstrate the benefit of using an ultimate skip (US) connection for facial expression synthesis using generative adversarial networks (GAN). A direct connection transfers identity, facial, and color details from input to output while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Arbish Akram , Nazar Khan

Face obscuration is needed by law enforcement and mass media outlets to guarantee privacy. Sharing sensitive content where obscuration or redaction techniques have failed to completely remove all identifiable traces can lead to many legal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-17 Hanxiang Hao , David Güera , János Horváth , Amy R. Reibman , Edward J. Delp

Training computer-vision related algorithms on medical images for disease diagnosis or image segmentation is difficult in large part due to privacy concerns. For this reason, generative image models are highly sought after to facilitate…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-02 Robert V. Bergen , Jean-Francois Rajotte , Fereshteh Yousefirizi , Arman Rahmim , Raymond T. Ng

Facial age estimation has achieved considerable success under controlled conditions. However, in unconstrained real-world scenarios, which are often referred to as 'in the wild', age estimation remains challenging, especially when faces are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Waqar Tanveer , Laura Fernández-Robles , Eduardo Fidalgo , Víctor González-Castro , Enrique Alegre

We address the challenging problem of generating facial attributes using a single image in an unconstrained pose. In contrast to prior works that largely consider generation on 2D near-frontal images, we propose a GAN-based framework to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-25 Feng-Ju Chang , Xiang Yu , Ram Nevatia , Manmohan Chandraker

In this paper, we present an Attention-based Identity Preserving Generative Adversarial Network (AIP-GAN) to overcome the identity leakage problem from a source image to a generated face image, an issue that is encountered in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-04 Kamran Ali , Charles E. Hughes

The advance of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) enables realistic face image synthesis. However, synthesizing face images that preserve facial identity as well as have high diversity within each identity remains challenging. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-05 Yujun Shen , Bolei Zhou , Ping Luo , Xiaoou Tang

The growing adoption of photorealistic 3D facial avatars, particularly those utilizing efficient 3D Gaussian Splatting representations, introduces new risks of online identity theft, especially in systems that rely on biometric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Dawid Wolkiewicz , Anastasiya Pechko , Przemysław Spurek , Piotr Syga

Generative AI has revolutionized modern machine learning by providing unprecedented realism, diversity, and efficiency in data generation. This technology holds immense potential for biometrics, including for securing sensitive and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Babak Poorebrahim Gilkalaye , Shubhabrata Mukherjee , Reza Derakhshani

Facial recognition using deep convolutional neural networks relies on the availability of large datasets of face images. Many examples of identities are needed, and for each identity, a large variety of images are needed in order for the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Richard T. Marriott , Sami Romdhani , Liming Chen

Representation disentanglement aims at learning interpretable features, so that the output can be recovered or manipulated accordingly. While existing works like infoGAN and AC-GAN exist, they choose to derive disjoint attribute code for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Shang-Fu Chen , Jia-Wei Yan , Ya-Fan Su , Yu-Chiang Frank Wang

Recent advances in computing have allowed for the possibility to collect large amounts of data on personal activities and private living spaces. To address the privacy concerns of users in this environment, we propose a novel framework…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-06 Aria Rezaei , Chaowei Xiao , Jie Gao , Bo Li , Sirajum Munir

In this study, we harness the information-theoretic Privacy Funnel (PF) model to develop a method for privacy-preserving representation learning using an end-to-end training framework. We rigorously address the trade-off between obfuscation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-29 Behrooz Razeghi , Parsa Rahimi , Sébastien Marcel

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have proven to be surprisingly efficient for image editing by inverting and manipulating the latent code corresponding to an input real image. This editing property emerges from the disentangled nature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Mustafa Shukor , Xu Yao , Bharath Bushan Damodaran , Pierre Hellier