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Face verification is a significant component of identity authentication in various applications including online banking and secure access to personal devices. The majority of the existing face image datasets often suffer from notable…

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This paper presents a novel approach to handle the challenges of face recognition. In this work thermal face images are considered, which minimizes the affect of illumination changes and occlusion due to moustache, beards, adornments etc.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2010-07-01 Mrinal Kanti Bhowmik , Debotosh Bhattacharjee , Mita Nasipuri , Dipak Kumar Basu , Mahantapas Kundu

Facial analysis is a key component in a wide range of applications such as healthcare, autonomous driving, and entertainment. Despite the availability of various facial RGB datasets, the thermal modality, which plays a crucial role in life…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Philipp Flotho , Moritz Piening , Anna Kukleva , Gabriele Steidl

Recognition of low resolution face images is a challenging problem in many practical face recognition systems. Methods have been proposed in the face recognition literature for the problem which assume that the probe is low resolution, but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-11 Sumit Shekhar , Vishal M. Patel , Rama Chellappa

Over the course of the last decade, infrared (IR) and particularly thermal IR imaging based face recognition has emerged as a promising complement to conventional, visible spectrum based approaches which continue to struggle when applied in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-06-10 Reza Shoja Ghiass , Ognjen Arandjelovic , Hakim Bendada , Xavier Maldague

Thermal images reveal medically important physiological information about human stress, signs of inflammation, and emotional mood that cannot be seen on visible images. Providing a method to generate thermal faces from visible images would…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Catherine Ordun , Edward Raff , Sanjay Purushotham

Modern surveillance systems increasingly rely on multi-wavelength sensors and deep neural networks to recognize faces in infrared images captured at night. However, most facial recognition models are trained on visible light datasets,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Mingshu Cai , Osamu Yoshie , Yuya Ieiri

Here an efficient fusion technique for automatic face recognition has been presented. Fusion of visual and thermal images has been done to take the advantages of thermal images as well as visual images. By employing fusion a new image can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2010-07-06 M. K. Bhowmik , Debotosh Bhattacharjee , M. Nasipuri , D. K. Basu , M. Kundu

Multimodal biometric identification has been grown a great attention in the most interests in the security fields. In the real world there exist modern system devices that are able to detect, recognize, and classify the human identities…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-05 M. Y. Shams , A. S. Tolba , S. H. Sarhan

In this paper, a thermal infra red face recognition system for human identification and verification using blood perfusion data and back propagation feed forward neural network is proposed. The system consists of three steps. At the very…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-09-06 Ayan Seal , Suranjan Ganguly , Debotosh Bhattacharjee , Mita Nasipuri , Dipak Kumar Basu

In this paper, we present a deep coupled learning frame- work to address the problem of matching polarimetric ther- mal face photos against a gallery of visible faces. Polariza- tion state information of thermal faces provides the miss- ing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-08 Seyed Mehdi Iranmanesh , Ali Dabouei , Hadi Kazemi , Nasser M. Nasrabadi

Designing face recognition systems that are capable of matching face images obtained in the thermal spectrum with those obtained in the visible spectrum is a challenging problem. In this work, we propose the use of semantic-guided…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Cunjian Chen , Arun Ross

Visible-to-thermal face image matching is a challenging variate of cross-modality recognition. The challenge lies in the large modality gap and low correlation between visible and thermal modalities. Existing approaches employ image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Usman Cheema , Mobeen Ahmad , Dongil Han , Seungbin Moon

In the beginning stage, face verification is done using easy method of geometric algorithm models, but the verification route has now developed into a scientific progress of complicated geometric representation and identical procedure. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-03-24 V. Karthikeyan , K. Vijayalakshmi , P. Jeyakumar

Unconstrained face recognition performance evaluations have traditionally focused on Labeled Faces in the Wild (LFW) dataset for imagery and the YouTubeFaces (YTF) dataset for videos in the last couple of years. Spectacular progress in this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-12 Lin Xiong , Jayashree Karlekar , Jian Zhao , Yi Cheng , Yan Xu , Jiashi Feng , Sugiri Pranata , Shengmei Shen

NeRFs have enabled highly realistic synthesis of human faces including complex appearance and reflectance effects of hair and skin. These methods typically require a large number of multi-view input images, making the process hardware…

This work tackles the face recognition task on images captured using thermal camera sensors which can operate in the non-light environment. While it can greatly increase the scope and benefits of the current security surveillance systems,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-08 Teng Zhang , Arnold Wiliem , Siqi Yang , Brian C. Lovell

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

Heterogeneous Face Recognition (HFR) aims to match faces across different domains (e.g., visible to near-infrared images), which has been widely applied in authentication and forensics scenarios. However, HFR is a challenging problem…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Ziming Yang , Jian Liang , Chaoyou Fu , Mandi Luo , Xiao-Yu Zhang

Deepfakes are realistic face manipulations that can pose serious threats to security, privacy, and trust. Existing methods mostly treat this task as binary classification, which uses digital labels or mask signals to train the detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Ke Sun , Shen Chen , Taiping Yao , Haozhe Yang , Xiaoshuai Sun , Shouhong Ding , Rongrong Ji