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We propose Frequency-Guided Attention (FGA), a lightweight upsampling module for single image super-resolution. Conventional upsamplers, such as Sub-Pixel Convolution, are efficient but frequently fail to reconstruct high-frequency details…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Daejune Choi , Youchan No , Jinhyung Lee , Duksu Kim

Human pose estimation is an essential yet challenging task in computer vision. One of the reasons for this difficulty is that there are many redundant regions in the images. In this work, we proposed a convolutional network architecture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-05 Guanxiong Sun , Chengqin Ye , Kuanquan Wang

Our project proposes an end-to-end 3D face alignment and reconstruction network. The backbone of our model is built by Bottle-Neck structure via Depth-wise Separable Convolution. We integrate Coordinate Attention mechanism and Spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Yilin Liu , Xuezhou Guo , Xinqi Wang , Fangzhou Du

Automatic prediction of age and gender from face images has drawn a lot of attention recently, due it is wide applications in various facial analysis problems. However, due to the large intra-class variation of face images (such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Amirali Abdolrashidi , Mehdi Minaei , Elham Azimi , Shervin Minaee

Automatic facial expression recognition (FER) has gained much attention due to its applications in human-computer interaction. Among the approaches to improve FER tasks, this paper focuses on deep architecture with the attention mechanism.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Luan Pham , The Huynh Vu , Tuan Anh Tran

Human pose estimation plays an important role in many computer vision tasks and has been studied for many decades. However, due to complex appearance variations from poses, illuminations, occlusions and low resolutions, it still remains a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Zhihui Su , Ming Ye , Guohui Zhang , Lei Dai , Jianda Sheng

Face parsing infers a pixel-wise label to each facial component, which has drawn much attention recently. Previous methods have shown their success in face parsing, which however overlook the correlation among facial components. As a matter…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Gusi Te , Wei Hu , Yinglu Liu , Hailin Shi , Tao Mei

In this paper, we propose a novel deep convolutional network (DCN) that achieves outstanding performance on FDDB, PASCAL Face, and AFW. Specifically, our method achieves a high recall rate of 90.99% on the challenging FDDB benchmark,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-09-23 Shuo Yang , Ping Luo , Chen Change Loy , Xiaoou Tang

This paper proposes a novel face recognition algorithm based on large-scale supervised hierarchical feature learning. The approach consists of two parts: hierarchical feature learning and large-scale model learning. The hierarchical feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-07-08 Jianguo Li , Yurong Chen

Deep learning methods have witnessed the great progress in image restoration with specific metrics (e.g., PSNR, SSIM). However, the perceptual quality of the restored image is relatively subjective, and it is necessary for users to control…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-21 Wei Wang , Ruiming Guo , Yapeng Tian , Wenming Yang

Fine-grained classification is challenging because categories can only be discriminated by subtle and local differences. Variances in the pose, scale or rotation usually make the problem more difficult. Most fine-grained classification…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-11-25 Tianjun Xiao , Yichong Xu , Kuiyuan Yang , Jiaxing Zhang , Yuxin Peng , Zheng Zhang

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

The deep convolutional neural networks have achieved significant improvements in accuracy and speed for single image super-resolution. However, as the depth of network grows, the information flow is weakened and the training becomes harder…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-27 Yanting Hu , Xinbo Gao , Jie Li , Yuanfei Huang , Hanzi Wang

Face representation learning solutions have recently achieved great success for various applications such as verification and identification. However, face recognition approaches that are based purely on RGB images rely solely on intensity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Hardik Uppal , Alireza Sepas-Moghaddam , Michael Greenspan , Ali Etemad

Image super-resolution is one of the important computer vision techniques aiming to reconstruct high-resolution images from corresponding low-resolution ones. Most recently, deep learning-based approaches have been demonstrated for image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-29 Jie Cai , Zibo Meng , Chiu Man Ho

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

Image super-resolution reconstruction achieves better results than traditional methods with the help of the powerful nonlinear representation ability of convolution neural network. However, some existing algorithms also have some problems,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-30 Yuxi Cai , Huicheng Lai

In this paper, we propose to incorporate convolutional neural networks with a multi-context attention mechanism into an end-to-end framework for human pose estimation. We adopt stacked hourglass networks to generate attention maps from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-27 Xiao Chu , Wei Yang , Wanli Ouyang , Cheng Ma , Alan L. Yuille , Xiaogang Wang

We present a deep learning approach for high resolution face completion with multiple controllable attributes (e.g., male and smiling) under arbitrary masks. Face completion entails understanding both structural meaningfulness and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-24 Zeyuan Chen , Shaoliang Nie , Tianfu Wu , Christopher G. Healey

Convolutional blocks have played a crucial role in advancing medical image segmentation by excelling in dense prediction tasks. However, their inability to effectively capture long-range dependencies has limited their performance.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-17 Siddhartha Mallick , Aayushman Ghosh , Jayanta Paul , Jaya Sil