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Portrait editing is a popular subject in photo manipulation. The Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) advances the generating of realistic faces and allows more face editing. In this paper, we argue about three issues in existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-27 Shuyang Gu , Jianmin Bao , Hao Yang , Dong Chen , Fang Wen , Lu Yuan

The increasing prevalence of computer vision applications necessitates handling vast amounts of visual data, often containing personal information. While this technology offers significant benefits, it should not compromise privacy. Data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Mustafa İzzet Muştu , Hazım Kemal Ekenel

Person re-identification is a basic subject in the field of computer vision. The traditional methods have several limitations in solving the problems of person illumination like occlusion, pose variation and feature variation under complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-19 Hamed Alqahtani , Manolya Kavakli-Thorne , Charles Z. Liu

The blooming of social media and face recognition (FR) systems has increased people's concern about privacy and security. A new type of adversarial privacy cloak (class-universal) can be applied to all the images of regular users, to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Xuannan Liu , Yaoyao Zhong , Weihong Deng , Hongzhi Shi , Xingchen Cui , Yunfeng Yin , Dongchao Wen

The widespread use of face recognition technology has given rise to privacy concerns, as many individuals are worried about the collection and utilization of their facial data. To address these concerns, researchers are actively exploring…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Zhiling Zhang , Jie Zhang , Kui Zhang , Wenbo Zhou , Weiming Zhang , Nenghai Yu

This study explores the use of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) to detect AI deepfakes and fraudulent activities in online payment systems. With the growing prevalence of deepfake technology, which can manipulate facial features in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Zong Ke , Shicheng Zhou , Yining Zhou , Chia Hong Chang , Rong Zhang

The success of deep learning is partly attributed to the availability of massive data downloaded freely from the Internet. However, it also means that users' private data may be collected by commercial organizations without consent and used…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Qi Tian , Kun Kuang , Kelu Jiang , Furui Liu , Zhihua Wang , Fei Wu

The misuse of deep learning-based facial manipulation poses a significant threat to civil rights. To prevent this fraud at its source, proactive defense has been proposed to disrupt the manipulation process by adding invisible adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Zuomin Qu , Wei Lu , Xiangyang Luo , Qian Wang , Xiaochun Cao

Rapid growth in the popularity of AR/VR/MR applications and cloud-based visual localization systems has given rise to an increased focus on the privacy of user content in the localization process. This privacy concern has been further…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Kunal Chelani , Assia Benbihi , Fredrik Kahl , Torsten Sattler , Zuzana Kukelova

We present EXE-GAN, a novel exemplar-guided facial inpainting framework using generative adversarial networks. Our approach can not only preserve the quality of the input facial image but also complete the image with exemplar-like facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Wanglong Lu , Hanli Zhao , Xianta Jiang , Xiaogang Jin , Yongliang Yang , Min Wang , Jiankai Lyu , Kaijie Shi

In this paper, we propose a new deep learning-based approach for disentangling face identity representations from expressive 3D faces. Given a 3D face, our approach not only extracts a disentangled identity representation but also generates…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Anis Kacem , Kseniya Cherenkova , Djamila Aouada

We present a framework for training GANs with explicit control over generated images. We are able to control the generated image by settings exact attributes such as age, pose, expression, etc. Most approaches for editing GAN-generated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Alon Shoshan , Nadav Bhonker , Igor Kviatkovsky , Gerard Medioni

Many existing facial expression recognition (FER) systems encounter substantial performance degradation when faced with variations in head pose. Numerous frontalization methods have been proposed to enhance these systems' performance under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Omar Ikne , Benjamin Allaert , Ioan Marius Bilasco , Hazem Wannous

Digital humans and, especially, 3D facial avatars have raised a lot of attention in the past years, as they are the backbone of several applications like immersive telepresence in AR or VR. Despite the progress, facial avatars reconstructed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Berna Kabadayi , Wojciech Zielonka , Bharat Lal Bhatnagar , Gerard Pons-Moll , Justus Thies

Blind face restoration usually relies on facial priors, such as facial geometry prior or reference prior, to restore realistic and faithful details. However, very low-quality inputs cannot offer accurate geometric prior while high-quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Xintao Wang , Yu Li , Honglun Zhang , Ying Shan

Face frontalization provides an effective and efficient way for face data augmentation and further improves the face recognition performance in extreme pose scenario. Despite recent advances in deep learning-based face synthesis approaches,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Yu Yin , Songyao Jiang , Joseph P. Robinson , Yun Fu

We present User-predictable Face Editing (UP-FacE) -- a novel method for predictable face shape editing. In stark contrast to existing methods for face editing using trial and error, edits with UP-FacE are predictable by the human user.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Florian Strohm , Mihai Bâce , Andreas Bulling

Image composition is a complex task which requires a lot of information about the scene for an accurate and realistic composition, such as perspective, lighting, shadows, occlusions, and object interactions. Previous methods have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Amr Ghoneim , Jiju Poovvancheri , Yasushi Akiyama , Dong Chen

Despite the recent advance of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) in high-fidelity image synthesis, there lacks enough understanding of how GANs are able to map a latent code sampled from a random distribution to a photo-realistic image.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-01 Yujun Shen , Jinjin Gu , Xiaoou Tang , Bolei Zhou

Last-generation GAN models allow to generate synthetic images which are visually indistinguishable from natural ones, raising the need to develop tools to distinguish fake and natural images thus contributing to preserve the trustworthiness…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-05 Mauro Barni , Kassem Kallas , Ehsan Nowroozi , Benedetta Tondi