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In this paper, we propose a novel deep learning network L1-(2D)2PCANet for face recognition, which is based on L1-norm-based two-directional two-dimensional principal component analysis (L1-(2D)2PCA). In our network, the role of L1-(2D)2PCA…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-24 YunKun Li , XiaoJun Wu , Josef Kittler

In recent years, face detection has experienced significant performance improvement with the boost of deep convolutional neural networks. In this report, we reimplement the state-of-the-art detector SRN and apply some tricks proposed in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-09 Yundong Zhang , Xiang Xu , Xiaotao Liu

Predicting interactions between biomolecules, such as protein-protein complexes, remains a challenging problem. Despite the many advancements done so far, the performances of docking protocols are deeply dependent on their capability of…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-08-19 Greta Grassmann , Lorenzo Di Rienzo , Giancarlo Ruocco , Mattia Miotto , Edoardo Milanetti

We propose a method to address challenges in unconstrained face detection, such as arbitrary pose variations and occlusions. First, a new image feature called Normalized Pixel Difference (NPD) is proposed. NPD feature is computed as the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-09-08 Shengcai Liao , Anil K. Jain , Stan Z. Li

This paper introduces a novel anchor design to support anchor-based face detection for superior scale-invariant performance, especially on tiny faces. To achieve this, we explicitly address the problem that anchor-based detectors drop…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-27 Chenchen Zhu , Ran Tao , Khoa Luu , Marios Savvides

Deep Convolutional Neural Network (DCNNs) come to be the most widely used solution for most computer vision related tasks, and one of the most important application scenes is face verification. Due to its high-accuracy performance, deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Jintao Zhang

As a long-standing problem in computer vision, face detection has attracted much attention in recent decades for its practical applications. With the availability of face detection benchmark WIDER FACE dataset, much of the progresses have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-31 Shifeng Zhang , Rui Zhu , Xiaobo Wang , Hailin Shi , Tianyu Fu , Shuo Wang , Tao Mei , Stan Z. Li

Robust face detection in the wild is one of the ultimate components to support various facial related problems, i.e. unconstrained face recognition, facial periocular recognition, facial landmarking and pose estimation, facial expression…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-20 Chenchen Zhu , Yutong Zheng , Khoa Luu , Marios Savvides

Face Recognition Systems that operate in unconstrained environments capture images under varying conditions,such as inconsistent lighting, or diverse face poses. These challenges require including a Face Detection module that regresses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Quentin Le Roux , Yannick Teglia , Teddy Furon , Philippe Loubet-Moundi

The variation of pose, illumination and expression makes face recognition still a challenging problem. As a pre-processing in holistic approaches, faces are usually aligned by eyes. The proposed method tries to perform a pixel alignment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-01 Hoda Mohammadzade , Amirhossein Sayyafan , Benyamin Ghojogh

Face recognition has evolved as a prominent biometric authentication modality. However, vulnerability to presentation attacks curtails its reliable deployment. Automatic detection of presentation attacks is essential for secure use of face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-10 Anjith George , Sebastien Marcel

Face recognition is a rapidly developing and widely applied aspect of biometric technologies. Its applications are broad, ranging from law enforcement to consumer applications, and industry efficiency and monitoring solutions. The recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-31 Andrew Jason Shepley

Reconstructing the detailed geometric structure of a face from a given image is a key to many computer vision and graphics applications, such as motion capture and reenactment. The reconstruction task is challenging as human faces vary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-07 Elad Richardson , Matan Sela , Roy Or-El , Ron Kimmel

Deep neural networks enriched with structural information have been widely employed for facial expression recognition tasks. However, these methods often depend on hierarchical information rather than face property to finish expression…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Chunwei Tian , Jingyuan Xie , Qi Zhang , Chao Li , Wangmeng Zuo , Shichao Zhang

In this paper, we propose a novel attribute-guided cross-resolution (low-resolution to high-resolution) face recognition framework that leverages a coupled generative adversarial network (GAN) structure with adversarial training to find the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-07 Veeru Talreja , Fariborz Taherkhani , Matthew C Valenti , Nasser M Nasrabadi

In this paper, we focus on addressing the open-set face identification problem on a few-shot gallery by fine-tuning. The problem assumes a realistic scenario for face identification, where only a small number of face images is given for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-09 Hojin Park , Jaewoo Park , Andrew Beng Jin Teoh

Online information systems currently heavily rely on the username and password traditional method for protecting information and controlling access. With the advancement in biometric technology and popularity of fields like AI and Machine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Ben Wycliff Mugalu , Rodrick Calvin Wamala , Jonathan Serugunda , Andrew Katumba

Modern top-performing object detectors depend heavily on backbone networks, whose advances bring consistent performance gains through exploring more effective network structures. In this paper, we propose a novel and flexible backbone…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Tingting Liang , Xiaojie Chu , Yudong Liu , Yongtao Wang , Zhi Tang , Wei Chu , Jingdong Chen , Haibin Ling

The corner-based detection paradigm enjoys the potential to produce high-quality boxes. But the development is constrained by three factors: 1) Hard to match corners. Heuristic corner matching algorithms can lead to incorrect boxes,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Chenglong Liu , Jintao Liu , Haorao Wei , Jinze Yang , Liangyu Xu , Yuchen Guo , Lu Fang

While deep learning has achieved great success in computer vision and many other fields, currently it does not work very well on patient genomic data with the "big p, small N" problem (i.e., a relatively small number of samples with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-07 Tianle Ma , Aidong Zhang