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Gender recognition from unconstrained face images is a challenging task due to the high degree of misalignment, pose, expression, and illumination variation. In previous works, the recognition of gender from unconstrained face images is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Olasimbo Ayodeji Arigbabu , Sharifah Mumtazah Syed Ahmad , Wan Azizun Wan Adnan , Salman Yussof , Saif Mahmood

Deep learning advanced face recognition to an unprecedented accuracy. However, understanding how local parts of the face affect the overall recognition performance is still mostly unclear. Among others, face swap has been experimented to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-24 Claudio Ferrari , Matteo Serpentoni , Stefano Berretti , Alberto Del Bimbo

Text-based person search aims to retrieve images of a certain pedestrian by a textual description. The key challenge of this task is to eliminate the inter-modality gap and achieve the feature alignment across modalities. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Shiping Li , Min Cao , Min Zhang

This paper proposes a fusion-based gender recognition method which uses facial images as input. Firstly, this paper utilizes pre-processing and a landmark detection method in order to find the important landmarks of faces. Thereafter, four…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Benyamin Ghojogh , Saeed Bagheri Shouraki , Hoda Mohammadzade , Ensieh Iranmehr

The semantically disentangled latent subspace in GAN provides rich interpretable controls in image generation. This paper includes two contributions on semantic latent subspace analysis in the scenario of face generation using StyleGAN2.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Bo Li , Qiulin Wang , Jiquan Pei , Yu Yang , Xiangyang Ji

Recent years have witnessed significant growth of face alignment. Though dense facial landmark is highly demanded in various scenarios, e.g., cosmetic medicine and facial beautification, most works only consider sparse face alignment. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Yangyu Huang , Xi Chen , Jongyoo Kim , Hao Yang , Chong Li , Jiaolong Yang , Dong Chen

Generalizing an object detector trained on a single domain to multiple unseen domains is a challenging task. Existing methods typically introduce image or feature augmentation to diversify the source domain to raise the robustness of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Hongda Qin , Xiao Lu , Zhiyong Wei , Yihong Cao , Kailun Yang , Ningjiang Chen

Domain generalization (DG) based Face Anti-Spoofing (FAS) aims to improve the model's performance on unseen domains. Existing methods either rely on domain labels to align domain-invariant feature spaces, or disentangle generalizable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Ajian Liu , Shuai Xue , Jianwen Gan , Jun Wan , Yanyan Liang , Jiankang Deng , Sergio Escalera , Zhen Lei

Recent multimodal models for instruction-based face editing enable semantic manipulation but still struggle with precise attribute control and identity preservation. Structural facial representations such as landmarks are effective for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Zhenghao Zhang , Ziying Zhang , Junchao Liao , Xiangyu Meng , Qiang Hu , Siyu Zhu , Xiaoyun Zhang , Long Qin , Weizhi Wang

Although facial landmark detection (FLD) has gained significant progress, existing FLD methods still suffer from performance drops on partially non-visible faces, such as faces with occlusions or under extreme lighting conditions or poses.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Jui-Che Chiang , Hou-Ning Hu , Bo-Syuan Hou , Chia-Yu Tseng , Yu-Lun Liu , Min-Hung Chen , Yen-Yu Lin

Prior studies show that the key to face anti-spoofing lies in the subtle image pattern, termed "spoof trace", e.g., color distortion, 3D mask edge, Moire pattern, and many others. Designing a generic anti-spoofing model to estimate those…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Yaojie Liu , Joel Stehouwer , Xiaoming Liu

We propose a novel end-to-end semi-supervised adversarial framework to generate photorealistic face images of new identities with wide ranges of expressions, poses, and illuminations conditioned by a 3D morphable model. Previous adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-09 Baris Gecer , Binod Bhattarai , Josef Kittler , Tae-Kyun Kim

We propose a method for learning landmark detectors for visual objects (such as the eyes and the nose in a face) without any manual supervision. We cast this as the problem of generating images that combine the appearance of the object as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-17 Tomas Jakab , Ankush Gupta , Hakan Bilen , Andrea Vedaldi

Unsupervised domain adaptation enables to alleviate the need for pixel-wise annotation in the semantic segmentation. One of the most common strategies is to translate images from the source domain to the target domain and then align their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Jinyu Yang , Weizhi An , Sheng Wang , Xinliang Zhu , Chaochao Yan , Junzhou Huang

Face recognition systems are usually faced with unseen domains in real-world applications and show unsatisfactory performance due to their poor generalization. For example, a well-trained model on webface data cannot deal with the ID vs.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-26 Jianzhu Guo , Xiangyu Zhu , Chenxu Zhao , Dong Cao , Zhen Lei , Stan Z. Li

Highly realistic AI generated face forgeries known as deepfakes have raised serious social concerns. Although DNN-based face forgery detection models have achieved good performance, they are vulnerable to latest generative methods that have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Yang Li , Songlin Yang , Wei Wang , Ziwen He , Bo Peng , Jing Dong

Face image animation from a single image has achieved remarkable progress. However, it remains challenging when only sparse landmarks are available as the driving signal. Given a source face image and a sequence of sparse face landmarks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-06 Ruiqi Zhao , Tianyi Wu , Guodong Guo

State-of-the-art face recognition (FR) models often experience a significant performance drop when dealing with facial images in surveillance scenarios where images are in low quality and often corrupted with noise. Leveraging facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Md Mahedi Hasan , Shoaib Meraj Sami , Nasser Nasrabadi

Aggregating features in terms of different convolutional blocks or contextual embeddings has been proven to be an effective way to strengthen feature representations for semantic segmentation. However, most of the current popular network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Zilong Huang , Yunchao Wei , Xinggang Wang , Wenyu Liu , Thomas S. Huang , Humphrey Shi

Learning segmentation from synthetic data and adapting to real data can significantly relieve human efforts in labelling pixel-level masks. A key challenge of this task is how to alleviate the data distribution discrepancy between the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Zhonghao Wang , Yunchao Wei , Rogerior Feris , Jinjun Xiong , Wen-Mei Hwu , Thomas S. Huang , Humphrey Shi