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Automatic kinship verification aims to determine whether some individuals belong to the same family. It is of great research significance to help missing persons reunite with their families. In this work, the challenging problem is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Jun Yu , Mengyan Li , Xinlong Hao , Guochen Xie

One major challenge in computer vision is to go beyond the modeling of individual objects and to investigate the bi- (one-versus-one) or tri- (one-versus-two) relationship among multiple visual entities, answering such questions as whether…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-07-22 Xiaoqian Qin , Xiaoyang Tan , Songcan Chen

Recognizing Families In the Wild (RFIW): an annual large-scale, multi-track automatic kinship recognition evaluation that supports various visual kin-based problems on scales much higher than ever before. Organized in conjunction with the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Joseph P. Robinson , Yu Yin , Zaid Khan , Ming Shao , Siyu Xia , Michael Stopa , Samson Timoner , Matthew A. Turk , Rama Chellappa , Yun Fu

The age gap in kinship verification addresses the time difference between the photos of the parent and the child. Moreover, their same-age photos are often unavailable, and face aging models are racially biased, which impacts the likeness…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Ali Nazari , Bardiya Kariminia , Mohsen Ebrahimi Moghaddam

We present the largest kinship recognition dataset to date, Families in the Wild (FIW). Motivated by the lack of a single, unified dataset for kinship recognition, we aim to provide a dataset that captivates the interest of the research…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-05 Joseph P. Robinson , Ming Shao , Yue Wu , Yun Fu

The main finding of this work is that the standard image classification pipeline, which consists of dictionary learning, feature encoding, spatial pyramid pooling and linear classification, outperforms all state-of-the-art face recognition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-10-01 Fumin Shen , Chunhua Shen

The accuracy of face recognition systems has improved significantly in the past few years, thanks to the large amount of data collected and advancements in neural network architectures. However, these large-scale datasets are often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Anjith George , Sebastien Marcel

Automatic kinship verification using facial images is a relatively new and challenging research problem in computer vision. It consists in automatically predicting whether two persons have a biological kin relation by examining their facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-15 Elhocine Boutellaa , Miguel Bordallo López , Samy Ait-Aoudia , Xiaoyi Feng , Abdenour Hadid

In this work, we propose a deep learning-based approach for kin verification using a unified multi-task learning scheme where all kinship classes are jointly learned. This allows us to better utilize small training sets that are typical of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Eran Dahan , Yosi Keller

In recent years, significant progress has been made in face recognition, which can be partially attributed to the availability of large-scale labeled face datasets. However, since the faces in these datasets usually contain limited degree…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Yichun Shi , Anil K. Jain

Face recognition sees remarkable progress in recent years, and its performance has reached a very high level. Taking it to a next level requires substantially larger data, which would involve prohibitive annotation cost. Hence, exploiting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Lei Yang , Xiaohang Zhan , Dapeng Chen , Junjie Yan , Chen Change Loy , Dahua Lin

Kinship verification is an emerging task in computer vision with multiple potential applications. However, there's no large enough kinship dataset to train a representative and robust model, which is a limitation for achieving better…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Jia Luo Peng , Keng Wei Chang , Shang-Hong Lai

Kinship verification has a number of applications such as organizing large collections of images and recognizing resemblances among humans. In this research, first, a human study is conducted to understand the capabilities of human mind and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-29 Naman Kohli , Mayank Vatsa , Richa Singh , Afzel Noore , Angshul Majumdar

Face detection has received intensive attention in recent years. Many works present lots of special methods for face detection from different perspectives like model architecture, data augmentation, label assignment and etc., which make the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-25 Yanjia Zhu , Hongxiang Cai , Shuhan Zhang , Chenhao Wang , Yichao Xiong

Visual kinship verification entails confirming whether or not two individuals in a given pair of images or videos share a hypothesized kin relation. As a generalized face verification task, visual kinship verification is particularly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Xiaoting Wu , Eric Granger , Xiaoyi Feng

Face recognition and verification are two computer vision tasks whose performances have advanced with the introduction of deep representations. However, ethical, legal, and technical challenges due to the sensitive nature of face data and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Alexandre Fournier-Montgieux , Michael Soumm , Adrian Popescu , Bertrand Luvison , Hervé Le Borgne

Kinship face synthesis is an interesting topic raised to answer questions like "what will your future children look like?". Published approaches to this topic are limited. Most of the existing methods train models for one-versus-one kin…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-27 Yong Zhang , Le Li , Zhilei Liu , Baoyuan Wu , Yanbo Fan , Zhifeng Li

Existing face recognition using deep neural networks is difficult to know what kind of features are used to discriminate the identities of face images clearly. To investigate the effective features for face recognition, we propose a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-16 Bong-Nam Kang , Yonghyun Kim , Daijin Kim

In this work we investigate a novel approach to handle the challenges of face recognition, which includes rotation, scale, occlusion, illumination etc. Here, we have used thermal face images as those are capable to minimize the affect of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2010-07-06 Mrinal Kanti Bhowmik , Debotosh Bhattacharjee , Mita Nasipuri , Dipak Kumar Basu , Mahantapas Kundu

Computational facial models that capture properties of facial cues related to aging and kinship increasingly attract the attention of the research community, enabling the development of reliable methods for age progression, age estimation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Markos Georgopoulos , Yannis Panagakis , Maja Pantic