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Faces manifest large variations in many aspects, such as identity, expression, pose, and face styling. Therefore, it is a great challenge to disentangle and extract these characteristics from facial images, especially in an unsupervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Jia-Ren Chang , Yong-Sheng Chen , Wei-Chen Chiu

Face recognition under extreme head poses is a challenging task. Ideally, a face recognition system should perform well across different head poses, which is known as pose-invariant face recognition. To achieve pose invariance, current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Patrik Mesec , Alan Jović

Blur in facial images significantly impedes the efficiency of recognition approaches. However, most existing blind deconvolution methods cannot generate satisfactory results due to their dependence on strong edges, which are sufficient in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-19 Dayong Tian , Dacheng Tao

As affective robots become integral in human life, these agents must be able to fairly evaluate human affective expressions without discriminating against specific demographic groups. Identifying bias in Machine Learning (ML) systems as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Ozgur Kara , Nikhil Churamani , Hatice Gunes

In recent years, the rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) systems has raised concerns about our ability to ensure their fairness, that is, how to avoid discrimination based on protected characteristics such as gender, race, or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Iris Dominguez-Catena , Daniel Paternain , Mikel Galar , MaryBeth Defrance , Maarten Buyl , Tijl De Bie

Face detection is a long-standing challenge in the field of computer vision, with the ultimate goal being to accurately localize human faces in an unconstrained environment. There are significant technical hurdles in making these systems…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Necdet Gurkan , Jordan W. Suchow

Facial Beauty Prediction (FBP) has made significant strides with the application of deep learning, yet state-of-the-art models often exhibit critical limitations, including architectural constraints, inherent demographic biases, and a lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Djamel Eddine Boukhari

Race classification is a long-standing challenge in the field of face image analysis. The investigation of salient facial features is an important task to avoid processing all face parts. Face segmentation strongly benefits several face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Khalil Khan , Jehad Ali , Irfan Uddin , Sahib Khan , Byeong-hee Roh

Recent work reports disparate performance for intersectional racial groups across face recognition tasks: face verification and identification. However, the definition of those racial groups has a significant impact on the underlying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Seyma Yucer , Furkan Tektas , Noura Al Moubayed , Toby P. Breckon

The goal of Fair Representation Learning (FRL) is to mitigate biases in machine learning models by learning data representations that enable high accuracy on downstream tasks while minimizing discrimination based on sensitive attributes.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Angéline Pouget , Nikola Jovanović , Mark Vero , Robin Staab , Martin Vechev

State-of-the-art face recognition (FR) models often experience a significant performance drop when dealing with facial images in surveillance scenarios where images are in low quality and often corrupted with noise. Leveraging facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Md Mahedi Hasan , Shoaib Meraj Sami , Nasser Nasrabadi

Face Recognition (FR) has advanced significantly with the development of deep learning, achieving high accuracy in several applications. However, the lack of interpretability of these systems raises concerns about their accountability,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Ivan DeAndres-Tame , Muhammad Faisal , Ruben Tolosana , Rouqaiah Al-Refai , Ruben Vera-Rodriguez , Philipp Terhörst

The key challenge of face recognition is to develop effective feature representations for reducing intra-personal variations while enlarging inter-personal differences. In this paper, we show that it can be well solved with deep learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-06-19 Yi Sun , Xiaogang Wang , Xiaoou Tang

Synthetic data has emerged as a promising alternative for training face recognition (FR) models, offering advantages in scalability, privacy compliance, and potential for bias mitigation. However, critical questions remain on whether both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Pavel Korshunov , Ketan Kotwal , Christophe Ecabert , Vidit Vidit , Amir Mohammadi , Sebastien Marcel

In the field of human-centric personalized image generation, the adapter-based method obtains the ability to customize and generate portraits by text-to-image training on facial data. This allows for identity-preserved personalization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Cheng Yu , Haoyu Xie , Lei Shang , Yang Liu , Jun Dan , Liefeng Bo , Baigui Sun

With the rapid development of facial forgery techniques, forgery detection has attracted more and more attention due to security concerns. Existing approaches attempt to use frequency information to mine subtle artifacts under high-quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Qiqi Gu , Shen Chen , Taiping Yao , Yang Chen , Shouhong Ding , Ran Yi

Difference features obtained by comparing the images of two periods play an indispensable role in the change detection (CD) task. However, a pair of bi-temporal images can exhibit diverse changes, which may cause various difference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Dan Wang , Licheng Jiao , Jie Chen , Shuyuan Yang , Fang Liu

Artificial intelligence (AI) systems increasingly inform medical decision-making, yet concerns about algorithmic bias and inequitable outcomes persist, particularly for historically marginalized populations. This paper introduces the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Andrés Morales-Forero , Lili J. Rueda , Ronald Herrera , Samuel Bassetto , Eric Coatanea

Face recognition (FR) systems continue to spread in our daily lives with an increasing demand for higher explainability and interpretability of FR systems that are mainly based on deep learning. While bias across demographic groups in FR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Marco Huber , Meiling Fang , Fadi Boutros , Naser Damer

Face recognition (FR) stands as one of the most crucial applications in computer vision. The accuracy of FR models has significantly improved in recent years due to the availability of large-scale human face datasets. However, directly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Xiao Lin , Yuge Huang , Jianqing Xu , Yuxi Mi , Shuigeng Zhou , Shouhong Ding