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Synthetic data generation is gaining increasing popularity in different computer vision applications. Existing state-of-the-art face recognition models are trained using large-scale face datasets, which are crawled from the Internet and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Hatef Otroshi Shahreza , Sébastien Marcel

Synthetic data is emerging as a substitute for authentic data to solve ethical and legal challenges in handling authentic face data. The current models can create real-looking face images of people who do not exist. However, it is a known…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Marco Huber , Anh Thi Luu , Fadi Boutros , Arjan Kuijper , Naser Damer

Machine learning systems require representations of the real world for training and testing - they require data, and lots of it. Collecting data at scale has logistical and ethical challenges, and synthetic data promises a solution to these…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Cedric Deslandes Whitney , Justin Norman

Large-scale face recognition datasets are collected by crawling the Internet and without individuals' consent, raising legal, ethical, and privacy concerns. With the recent advances in generative models, recently several works proposed…

The ability to accurately recognize an individual's face with respect to human aging factor holds significant importance for various private as well as government sectors such as customs and public security bureaus, passport office, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Wang Yao , Muhammad Ali Farooq , Joseph Lemley , Peter Corcoran

Enabling highly secure applications (such as border crossing) with face recognition requires extensive biometric performance tests through large scale data. However, using real face images raises concerns about privacy as the laws do not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Marcel Grimmer , Haoyu Zhang , Raghavendra Ramachandra , Kiran Raja , Christoph Busch

The use of synthetic data for training computer vision algorithms has become increasingly popular due to its cost-effectiveness, scalability, and ability to provide accurate multi-modality labels. Although recent studies have demonstrated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Eli Friedman , Assaf Lehr , Alexey Gruzdev , Vladimir Loginov , Max Kogan , Moran Rubin , Orly Zvitia

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

Facial expression datasets remain limited in scale due to the subjectivity of annotations and the labor-intensive nature of data collection. This limitation poses a significant challenge for developing modern deep learning-based facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Xilin He , Cheng Luo , Xiaole Xian , Bing Li , Muhammad Haris Khan , Zongyuan Ge , Weicheng Xie , Siyang Song , Linlin Shen , Bernard Ghanem , Xiangyu Yue

The availability of large-scale authentic face databases has been crucial to the significant advances made in face recognition research over the past decade. However, legal and ethical concerns led to the recent retraction of many of these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Fadi Boutros , Jonas Henry Grebe , Arjan Kuijper , Naser Damer

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

Deep learning-based face recognition continues to face challenges due to its reliance on huge datasets obtained from web crawling, which can be costly to gather and raise significant real-world privacy concerns. To address this issue, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Minsoo Kim , Min-Cheol Sagong , Gi Pyo Nam , Junghyun Cho , Ig-Jae Kim

Daily monitoring of intra-personal facial changes associated with health and emotional conditions has great potential to be useful for medical, healthcare, and emotion recognition fields. However, the approach for capturing intra-personal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Yusuke Akamatsu , Terumi Umematsu , Hitoshi Imaoka , Shizuko Gomi , Hideo Tsurushima

Advances in face synthesis have raised alarms about the deceptive use of synthetic faces. Can synthetic identities be effectively used to fool human observers? In this paper, we introduce a study of the human perception of synthetic faces…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Bingyu Shen , Brandon RichardWebster , Alice O'Toole , Kevin Bowyer , Walter J. Scheirer

Recent advances in deep learning methods have increased the performance of face detection and recognition systems. The accuracy of these models relies on the range of variation provided in the training data. Creating a dataset that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Shubhajit Basak , Hossein Javidnia , Faisal Khan , Rachel McDonnell , Michael Schukat

The use of large-scale, web-scraped datasets to train face recognition models has raised significant privacy and bias concerns. Synthetic methods mitigate these concerns and provide scalable and controllable face generation to enable fair…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Michael Yeung , Toya Teramoto , Songtao Wu , Tatsuo Fujiwara , Kenji Suzuki , Tamaki Kojima

Facial Expression Recognition faces two core challenges. The first is class imbalance in public datasets, which skews the learning process and weakens generalization. The second is related to privacy and data collection constraints, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Ali Azmoudeh , Erdi Sarıtaş , Ömer Yıldırım , Hazım Kemal Ekenel

Face recognition capabilities have recently made extraordinary leaps. Though this progress is at least partially due to ballooning training set sizes -- huge numbers of face images downloaded and labeled for identity -- it is not clear if…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-12 Iacopo Masi , Anh Tuan Tran , Jatuporn Toy Leksut , Tal Hassner , Gerard Medioni

Bias analysis for synthetic face detection is bound to become a critical topic in the coming years. Although many detection models have been developed and several datasets have been released to reliably identify synthetic content, one…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Asmae Lamsaf , Lucia Cascone , Hugo Proença , João Neves

Privacy issue is a main concern in developing face recognition techniques. Although synthetic face images can partially mitigate potential legal risks while maintaining effective face recognition (FR) performance, FR models trained by face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Zhonglin Sun , Siyang Song , Ioannis Patras , Georgios Tzimiropoulos