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Face recognition (FR) can be abused for privacy intrusion. Governments, private companies, or even individual attackers can collect facial images by web scraping to build an FR system identifying human faces without their consent. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Ka-Ho Chow , Sihao Hu , Tiansheng Huang , Ling Liu

Psychophysical studies suggest that face recognition takes place in a narrow band of low spatial frequencies (``critical band''). Here, we examined the recognition performance of an artificial face recognition system as a function of the…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2007-05-23 Matthias S. Keil , Agata Lapedriza , David Masip , Jordi Vitria

Over the past five decades, automated face recognition (FR) has progressed from handcrafted geometric and statistical approaches to advanced deep learning architectures that now approach, and in many cases exceed, human performance. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Minchul Kim , Anil Jain , Xiaoming Liu

Facial recognition is fundamental for a wide variety of security systems operating in real-time applications. In video surveillance based face recognition, face images are typically captured over multiple frames in uncontrolled conditions;…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Eker Onur , Bal Murat

Reinforcement learning (RL) provides a powerful method to address problems in operations research. However, its real-world application often fails due to a lack of user acceptance and trust. A possible remedy is to provide managers with the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Mirko Stappert , Bernhard Lutz , Niklas Goby , Dirk Neumann

In modern times, face recognition has become one of the key aspects of computer vision. There are at least two reasons for this trend; the first is the commercial and law enforcement applications, and the second is the availability of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-10-09 Meftah Ur Rahman

In the COVID--19 pandemic, among the more controversial issues is the use of masks and face coverings. Much of the concern boils down to the question -- just how effective are face coverings? One means to address this question is to review…

Face recognition algorithms have demonstrated very high recognition performance, suggesting suitability for real world applications. Despite the enhanced accuracies, robustness of these algorithms against attacks and bias has been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-10 Richa Singh , Akshay Agarwal , Maneet Singh , Shruti Nagpal , Mayank Vatsa

The way to accurately and effectively identify people has always been an interesting topic in research and industry. With the rapid development of artificial intelligence in recent years, facial recognition gains lots of attention due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Yang Li , Sangwhan Cha

Through our respiratory system, many viruses and diseases frequently spread and pass from one person to another. Covid-19 served as an example of how crucial it is to track down and cut back on contacts to stop its spread. There is a clear…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Mohamed R. Ibrahim , Terry Lyons

Face recognition is one of the most studied research topics in the community. In recent years, the research on face recognition has shifted to using 3D facial surfaces, as more discriminating features can be represented by the 3D geometric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-26 Yaping Jing , Xuequan Lu , Shang Gao

The perceptual representations supporting our ability to recognize faces remain a computational mystery. Deep neural networks offer mechanistic hypotheses for human face perception, but theoretically distinct models often make…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-05-14 Wenxuan Guo , Heiko H. Schütt , Kamila Maria Jozwik , Katherine R. Storrs , Nikolaus Kriegeskorte , Tal Golan

Facial expression recognition (FER) is a topic attracting significant research in both psychology and machine learning with a wide range of applications. Despite a wealth of research on human FER and considerable progress in computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Serin Park , Christian Wallraven

The COVID-19 pandemic forced governments across the world to impose lockdowns to prevent virus transmissions. This resulted in the shutdown of all economic activity and accordingly the production at manufacturing plants across most sectors…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Prateek Khandelwal , Anuj Khandelwal , Snigdha Agarwal , Deep Thomas , Naveen Xavier , Arun Raghuraman

The rapid adoption of facial recognition (FR) technology by both government and commercial entities in recent years has raised concerns about civil liberties and privacy. In response, a broad suite of so-called "anti-facial recognition"…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Emily Wenger , Shawn Shan , Haitao Zheng , Ben Y. Zhao

We propose an experimental method for measuring bias in face recognition systems. Existing methods to measure bias depend on benchmark datasets that are collected in the wild and annotated for protected (e.g., race, gender) and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Hao Liang , Pietro Perona , Guha Balakrishnan

As multimedia content is quickly growing, the field of facial recognition has become one of the major research fields, particularly in the recent years. The most problematic area to researchers in image processing and computer vision is the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Aya Kaysan Bahjat

The existing face recognition datasets usually lack occlusion samples, which hinders the development of face recognition. Especially during the COVID-19 coronavirus epidemic, wearing a mask has become an effective means of preventing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Baojin Huang , Zhongyuan Wang , Guangcheng Wang , Kui Jiang , Kangli Zeng , Zhen Han , Xin Tian , Yuhong Yang

The vast progress in synthetic image synthesis enables the generation of facial images in high resolution and photorealism. In biometric applications, the main motivation for using synthetic data is to solve the shortage of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-18 Marcel Grimmer , Haoyu Zhang , Raghavendra Ramachandra , Kiran Raja , Christoph Busch

The human face constantly conveys information, both consciously and subconsciously. However, as basic as it is for humans to visually interpret this information, it is quite a big challenge for machines. Conventional semantic facial feature…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-10-21 Amogh Gudi