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The face mask is an essential sanitaryware in daily lives growing during the pandemic period and is a big threat to current face recognition systems. The masks destroy a lot of details in a large area of face, and it makes it difficult to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Susith Hemathilaka , Achala Aponso

In order to effectively prevent the spread of COVID-19 virus, almost everyone wears a mask during coronavirus epidemic. This almost makes conventional facial recognition technology ineffective in many cases, such as community access…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Zhongyuan Wang , Guangcheng Wang , Baojin Huang , Zhangyang Xiong , Qi Hong , Hao Wu , Peng Yi , Kui Jiang , Nanxi Wang , Yingjiao Pei , Heling Chen , Yu Miao , Zhibing Huang , Jinbi Liang

The performance of face detection has been largely improved with the development of convolutional neural network. However, the occlusion issue due to mask and sunglasses, is still a challenging problem. The improvement on the recall of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-23 Jianfeng Wang , Ye Yuan , Gang Yu

Recent advances in machine learning and computer vision have led to reported facial recognition accuracies surpassing human performance. We question if these systems will translate to real-world forensic scenarios in which a potentially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-13 Justin Norman , Shruti Agarwal , Hany Farid

Photos of faces captured in unconstrained environments, such as large crowds, still constitute challenges for current face recognition approaches as often faces are occluded by objects or people in the foreground. However, few studies have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Stefan Hörmann , Zeyuan Zhang , Martin Knoche , Torben Teepe , Gerhard Rigoll

A person's face discloses important information about their affective state. Although there has been extensive research on recognition of facial expressions, the performance of existing approaches is challenged by facial occlusions. Facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-18 Behnaz Nojavanasghari , Charles. E. Hughes , Tadas Baltrusaitis , Louis-philippe Morency

Facial expression recognition (FER) algorithms work well in constrained environments with little or no occlusion of the face. However, real-world face occlusion is prevalent, most notably with the need to use a face mask in the current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Sridhar Sola , Darshan Gera

Facial expression recognition (FER) is a challenging task due to pervasive occlusion and dataset biases. Especially when facial information is partially occluded, existing FER models struggle to extract effective facial features, leading to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Huiyu Zhai , Xingxing Yang , Yalan Ye , Chenyang Li , Bin Fan , Changze Li

The Real Face Dataset is a pedestrian face detection benchmark dataset in the wild, comprising over 11,000 images and over 55,000 detected faces in various ambient conditions. The dataset aims to provide a comprehensive and diverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Leonardo Ramos Thomas

With the recent world-wide COVID-19 pandemic, using face masks have become an important part of our lives. People are encouraged to cover their faces when in public area to avoid the spread of infection. The use of these face masks has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-26 Aqeel Anwar , Arijit Raychowdhury

Video facial expression recognition is useful for many applications and received much interest lately. Although some solutions give really good results in a controlled environment (no occlusion), recognition in the presence of partial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Delphine Poux , Benjamin Allaert , Nacim Ihaddadene , Ioan Marius Bilasco , Chaabane Djeraba , Mohammed Bennamoun

Contemporary face detection algorithms have to deal with many challenges such as variations in pose, illumination, and scale. A subclass of the face detection problem that has recently gained increasing attention is occluded face detection,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Sahel Mohammad Iqbal , Danush Shekar , Subhankar Mishra

In the field of deep learning applied to face recognition, securing large-scale, high-quality datasets is vital for attaining precise and reliable results. However, amassing significant volumes of high-quality real data faces hurdles such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Omer Granoviter , Alexey Gruzdev , Vladimir Loginov , Max Kogan , Orly Zvitia

Blind face restoration (BFR) on images has significantly progressed over the last several years, while real-world video face restoration (VFR), which is more challenging for more complex face motions such as moving gaze directions and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Ziyan Chen , Jingwen He , Xinqi Lin , Yu Qiao , Chao Dong

Facial action units (FAUs) are critical for fine-grained facial expression analysis. Although FAU detection has been actively studied using ideally high quality images, it was not thoroughly studied under heavily occluded conditions. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Minyang Jiang , Yongwei Wang , Martin J. McKeown , Z. Jane Wang

Open-set face recognition refers to a scenario in which biometric systems have incomplete knowledge of all existing subjects. Therefore, they are expected to prevent face samples of unregistered subjects from being identified as previously…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Rafael Henrique Vareto , Manuel Günther , William Robson Schwartz

The surge in face forgeries has increasingly undermined confidence in the authenticity of online content. As generation algorithms rapidly evolve, new fake categories will constantly emerge, severely challenging existing face forgery…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Zhongyi Cai , Bryce Gernon , Wentao Bao , Yifan Li , Matthew Wright , Yu Kong

Occlusion and pose variations, which can change facial appearance significantly, are two major obstacles for automatic Facial Expression Recognition (FER). Though automatic FER has made substantial progresses in the past few decades,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-06 Kai Wang , Xiaojiang Peng , Jianfei Yang , Debin Meng , Yu Qiao

Facial recognition has become a widely used method for authentication and identification, with applications for secure access and locating missing persons. Its success is largely attributed to deep learning, which leverages large datasets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Pedro Vidal , Bernardo Biesseck , Luiz E. L. Coelho , Roger Granada , David Menotti

Image resolution, or in general, image quality, plays an essential role in the performance of today's face recognition systems. To address this problem, we propose a novel combination of the popular triplet loss to improve robustness…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Martin Knoche , Mohamed Elkadeem , Stefan Hörmann , Gerhard Rigoll