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In the field of face recognition, it is always a hot research topic to improve the loss solution to make the face features extracted by the network have greater discriminative power. Research works in recent years has improved the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Meng Sang , Jiaxuan Chen , Mengzhen Li , Pan Tan , Anning Pan , Shan Zhao , Yang Yang

In recent years, deep face recognition methods have demonstrated impressive results on in-the-wild datasets. However, these methods have shown a significant decline in performance when applied to real-world low-resolution benchmarks like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Mohammad Saeed Ebrahimi Saadabadi , Sahar Rahimi Malakshan , Hossein Kashiani , Nasser M. Nasrabadi

Recognizability, a key perceptual factor in human face processing, strongly affects the performance of face recognition (FR) systems in both verification and identification tasks. Effectively using recognizability to enhance feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Duc-Phuong Doan-Ngo , Thanh-Dang Diep , Thanh Nguyen-Duc , Thanh-Sach LE , Nam Thoai

Learning discriminative face features plays a major role in building high-performing face recognition models. The recent state-of-the-art face recognition solutions proposed to incorporate a fixed penalty margin on commonly used…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Fadi Boutros , Naser Damer , Florian Kirchbuchner , Arjan Kuijper

We propose Curriculum by Masking (CBM), a novel state-of-the-art curriculum learning strategy that effectively creates an easy-to-hard training schedule via patch (token) masking, offering significant accuracy improvements over the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Andrei Jarca , Florinel-Alin Croitoru , Radu Tudor Ionescu

Data for face analysis often exhibit highly-skewed class distribution, i.e., most data belong to a few majority classes, while the minority classes only contain a scarce amount of instances. To mitigate this issue, contemporary deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-01 Chen Huang , Yining Li , Chen Change Loy , Xiaoou Tang

Human attribute analysis is a challenging task in the field of computer vision, since the data is largely imbalance-distributed. Common techniques such as re-sampling and cost-sensitive learning require prior-knowledge to train the system.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-16 Yiru Wang , Weihao Gan , Jie Yang , Wei Wu , Junjie Yan

Time series widely exists in real-world applications and many deep learning models have performed well on it. Current research has shown the importance of learning strategy for models, suggesting that the benefit is the order and size of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Chenxi Sun , Hongyan Li , Moxian Song , Derun Cai , Shenda Hong

When faced with learning challenging new tasks, humans often follow sequences of steps that allow them to incrementally build up the necessary skills for performing these new tasks. However, in machine learning, models are most often…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Otilia Stretcu , Emmanouil Antonios Platanios , Tom M. Mitchell , Barnabás Póczos

We explore different curriculum learning methods for training convolutional neural networks on the task of deformable pairwise 3D medical image registration. To the best of our knowledge, we are the first to attempt to improve performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Mihail Burduja , Radu Tudor Ionescu

The performance of deep segmentation models often degrades due to distribution shifts in image intensities between the training and test data sets. This is particularly pronounced in multi-centre studies involving data acquired using…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-03 Zhendong Liu , Van Manh , Xin Yang , Xiaoqiong Huang , Karim Lekadir , Víctor Campello , Nishant Ravikumar , Alejandro F Frangi , Dong Ni

Despite the recent success of convolutional neural networks for computer vision applications, unconstrained face recognition remains a challenge. In this work, we make two contributions to the field. Firstly, we consider the problem of face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Daniel Sáez Trigueros , Li Meng , Margaret Hartnett

Recently, representation learning with contrastive learning algorithms has been successfully applied to challenging unlabeled datasets. However, these methods are unable to distinguish important features from unimportant ones under simply…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Toshiyuki Oshima , Kentaro Takagi , Kouta Nakata

Recognising detailed facial or clothing attributes in images of people is a challenging task for computer vision, especially when the training data are both in very large scale and extremely imbalanced among different attribute classes. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-11 Qi Dong , Shaogang Gong , Xiatian Zhu

Contrastive learning has gained popularity and pushes state-of-the-art performance across numerous large-scale benchmarks. In contrastive learning, the contrastive loss function plays a pivotal role in discerning similarities between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Haojin Deng , Yimin Yang

Curriculum learning (CL) mimics human learning, in which easy samples are learned first, followed by harder samples, and has become an effective method for training deep networks. However, many existing automatic CL methods maintain a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Wensheng Li , Yichao Tian , Hao Wang , Ruifeng Zhou , Hanting Guan , Chao Zhang , Dacheng Tao

Face sketches are able to capture the spatial topology of a face while lacking some facial attributes such as race, skin, or hair color. Existing sketch-photo recognition approaches have mostly ignored the importance of facial attributes.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-10 Hadi Kazemi , Sobhan Soleymani , Ali Dabouei , Mehdi Iranmanesh , Nasser M. Nasrabadi

Curriculum learning techniques are a viable solution for improving the accuracy of automatic models, by replacing the traditional random training with an easy-to-hard strategy. However, the standard curriculum methodology does not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Petru Soviany

Curriculum learning (CL) describes a machine learning training strategy in which samples are gradually introduced into the training process based on their difficulty. Despite a partially contradictory body of evidence in the literature, CL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Simon Rampp , Manuel Milling , Andreas Triantafyllopoulos , Björn W. Schuller

Recent works have shown that deep metric learning algorithms can benefit from weak supervision from another input modality. This additional modality can be incorporated directly into the popular triplet-based loss function as distances.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-29 Istvan Fehervari , Ives Macedo