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In this paper two new learning-based eXplainable AI (XAI) methods for deep convolutional neural network (DCNN) image classifiers, called L-CAM-Fm and L-CAM-Img, are proposed. Both methods use an attention mechanism that is inserted in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-23 Ioanna Gkartzonika , Nikolaos Gkalelis , Vasileios Mezaris

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) can automatically learn data patterns to express face images for facial expression recognition (FER). However, they may ignore effect of facial segmentation of FER. In this paper, we propose a perception…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Chunwei Tian , Jingyuan Xie , Lingjun Li , Wangmeng Zuo , Yanning Zhang , David Zhang

This paper focuses on designing data-driven models to learn a discriminant representation space for face recognition using RGB-D data. Unlike hand-crafted representations, learned models can extract and organize the discriminant information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-18 Nesrine Grati , Achraf Ben-Hamadou , Mohamed Hammami

In this paper, we present an effective and efficient face deblurring algorithm by exploiting semantic cues via deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs). As face images are highly structured and share several key semantic components (e.g.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-19 Ziyi Shen , Wei-Sheng Lai , Tingfa Xu , Jan Kautz , Ming-Hsuan Yang

The rise of deepfake technology brings forth new questions about the authenticity of various forms of media found online today. Videos and images generated by artificial intelligence (AI) have become increasingly more difficult to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Benjamin Carter , Nathan Dilla , Micheal Callahan , Atuhaire Ambala

This thesis describes the design and implementation of a smile detector based on deep convolutional neural networks. It starts with a summary of neural networks, the difficulties of training them and new training methods, such as Restricted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-08-27 Patrick O. Glauner

Automated surface segmentation is important and challenging in many medical image analysis applications. Recent deep learning based methods have been developed for various object segmentation tasks. Most of them are a classification based…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-03 Leixin Zhou , Xiaodong Wu

We present a face detection algorithm based on Deformable Part Models and deep pyramidal features. The proposed method called DP2MFD is able to detect faces of various sizes and poses in unconstrained conditions. It reduces the gap in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-08-19 Rajeev Ranjan , Vishal M. Patel , Rama Chellappa

Skin cancer, the most common human malignancy, is primarily diagnosed visually by physicians [1]. Classification with an automated method like CNN [2, 3] shows potential for challenging tasks [1]. By now, the deep convolutional neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-13 Wenhao Zhang , Liangcai Gao , Runtao Liu

We introduce the concept of unconstrained real-time 3D facial performance capture through explicit semantic segmentation in the RGB input. To ensure robustness, cutting edge supervised learning approaches rely on large training datasets of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-12 Shunsuke Saito , Tianye Li , Hao Li

Image segmentation is considered to be one of the critical tasks in hyperspectral remote sensing image processing. Recently, convolutional neural network (CNN) has established itself as a powerful model in segmentation and classification by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-29 Fahim Irfan Alam , Jun Zhou , Alan Wee-Chung Liew , Xiuping Jia , Jocelyn Chanussot , Yongsheng Gao

Ethnic group classification is a well-researched problem, which has been pursued mainly during the past two decades via traditional approaches of image processing and machine learning. In this paper, we propose a method of classifying an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-09 Katia Huri , Eli David , Nathan S. Netanyahu

Due to object detection's close relationship with video analysis and image understanding, it has attracted much research attention in recent years. Traditional object detection methods are built on handcrafted features and shallow trainable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Zhong-Qiu Zhao , Peng Zheng , Shou-tao Xu , Xindong Wu

We present a novel convolutional neural network (CNN) design for facial landmark coordinate regression. We examine the intermediate features of a standard CNN trained for landmark detection and show that features extracted from later, more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-03-23 Yue Wu , Tal Hassner , KangGeon Kim , Gerard Medioni , Prem Natarajan

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have a high accuracy on image classification tasks. However, DNNs trained by such dataset with co-occurrence bias may rely on wrong features while making decisions for classification. It will greatly affect the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-03 Xi Yang , Bojian Wu , Issei Sato , Takeo Igarashi

The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is an unparalleled crisis leading to a huge number of casualties and security problems. In order to reduce the spread of coronavirus, people often wear masks to protect themselves. This makes face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Walid Hariri

Face detection has achieved great success using the region-based methods. In this report, we propose a region-based face detector applying deep networks in a fully convolutional fashion, named Face R-FCN. Based on Region-based Fully…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-19 Yitong Wang , Xing Ji , Zheng Zhou , Hao Wang , Zhifeng Li

We present a method for discovering and exploiting object specific deep learning features and use face detection as a case study. Motivated by the observation that certain convolutional channels of a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-07 Xianxu Hou , Ke Sun , Linlin Shen , Guoping Qiu

Deep Learning models have achieved remarkable success. Training them is often accelerated by building on top of pre-trained models which poses the risk of perpetuating encoded biases. Here, we investigate biases in the representations of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Valerie Krug , Sebastian Stober

Deep learning advanced face recognition to an unprecedented accuracy. However, understanding how local parts of the face affect the overall recognition performance is still mostly unclear. Among others, face swap has been experimented to…

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