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Effective and real-time eyeblink detection is of wide-range applications, such as deception detection, drive fatigue detection, face anti-spoofing, etc. Although numerous of efforts have already been paid, most of them focus on addressing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-19 Guilei Hu , Yang Xiao , Zhiguo Cao , Lubin Meng , Zhiwen Fang , Joey Tianyi Zhou , Junsong Yuan

Fine-tuning from a collection of models pre-trained on different domains (a "model zoo") is emerging as a technique to improve test accuracy in the low-data regime. However, model selection, i.e. how to pre-select the right model to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Aditya Deshpande , Alessandro Achille , Avinash Ravichandran , Hao Li , Luca Zancato , Charless Fowlkes , Rahul Bhotika , Stefano Soatto , Pietro Perona

Recent single-image relighting methods, powered by advanced generative models, have achieved impressive photorealism on synthetic benchmarks. However, their effectiveness in the complex visual landscape of the real world remains largely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Lezhong Wang , Mehmet Onurcan Kaya , Siavash Bigdeli , Jeppe Revall Frisvad

Labeling articulated objects in unconstrained settings have a wide variety of applications including entertainment, neuroscience, psychology, ethology, and many fields of medicine. Large offline labeled datasets do not exist for all but the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Mosam Dabhi , Chaoyang Wang , Tim Clifford , Laszlo Attila Jeni , Ian R. Fasel , Simon Lucey

Large-scale, volunteer-collected datasets of community-identified natural world imagery like iNaturalist have enabled marked performance gains for fine-grained visual classification of species using machine learning methods. However, such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Elena Sierra , Lauren E. Gillespie , Salim Soltani , Moises Exposito-Alonso , Teja Kattenborn

Deep learning-based person Re-IDentification (ReID) often requires a large amount of training data to achieve good performance. Thus it appears that collecting more training data from diverse environments tends to improve the ReID…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-07 Lu Yang , Lingqiao Liu , Yunlong Wang , Peng Wang , Yanning Zhang

Using massive datasets, foundation models are large-scale, pre-trained models that perform a wide range of tasks. These models have shown consistently improved results with the introduction of new methods. It is crucial to analyze how these…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-27 Mobina Mansoori , Sajjad Shahabodini , Farnoush Bayatmakou , Jamshid Abouei , Konstantinos N. Plataniotis , Arash Mohammadi

Models trained on one set of domains often suffer performance drops on unseen domains, e.g., when wildlife monitoring models are deployed in new camera locations. In this work, we study principles for designing data augmentations for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Irena Gao , Shiori Sagawa , Pang Wei Koh , Tatsunori Hashimoto , Percy Liang

Camera traps enable the automatic collection of large quantities of image data. Biologists all over the world use camera traps to monitor animal populations. We have recently been making strides towards automatic species classification in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-23 Sara Beery , Elijah Cole , Arvi Gjoka

Traditionally, large language models have been either trained on general web crawls or domain-specific data. However, recent successes of generative large language models, have shed light on the benefits of cross-domain datasets. To examine…

We present the largest kinship recognition dataset to date, Families in the Wild (FIW). Motivated by the lack of a single, unified dataset for kinship recognition, we aim to provide a dataset that captivates the interest of the research…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-05 Joseph P. Robinson , Ming Shao , Yue Wu , Yun Fu

In recent years, there has been a proliferation of spatiotemporal foundation models in different scientific disciplines. While promising, these models are often domain-specific and are only assessed within the particular applications for…

Recently, technologies such as face detection, facial landmark localisation and face recognition and verification have matured enough to provide effective and efficient solutions for imagery captured under arbitrary conditions (referred to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-02 Grigorios G. Chrysos , Epameinondas Antonakos , Patrick Snape , Akshay Asthana , Stefanos Zafeiriou

Recent years have seen the ever-increasing importance of pre-trained models and their downstream training in deep learning research and applications. At the same time, the defense for adversarial examples has been mainly investigated in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Ziquan Liu , Yi Xu , Xiangyang Ji , Antoni B. Chan

Machine learning models fail to perform well on real-world applications when 1) the category distribution P(Y) of the training dataset suffers from long-tailed distribution and 2) the test data is drawn from different conditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Xiao Gu , Yao Guo , Zeju Li , Jianing Qiu , Qi Dou , Yuxuan Liu , Benny Lo , Guang-Zhong Yang

Species distribution models (SDMs), which aim to predict species occurrence based on environmental variables, are widely used to monitor and respond to biodiversity change. Recent deep learning advances for SDMs have been shown to perform…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Catherine Villeneuve , Benjamin Akera , Mélisande Teng , David Rolnick

Together with the recent advances in semantic segmentation, many domain adaptation methods have been proposed to overcome the domain gap between training and deployment environments. However, most previous studies use limited combinations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-26 Haruya Sakashita , Christoph Flothow , Noriko Takemura , Yusuke Sugano

Accurately recognizing health-related conditions from wearable data is crucial for improved healthcare outcomes. To improve the recognition accuracy, various approaches have focused on how to effectively fuse information from multiple…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-18 Huiyuan Yang , Han Yu , Kusha Sridhar , Thomas Vaessen , Inez Myin-Germeys , Akane Sano

There are demographic biases present in current facial recognition (FR) models. To measure these biases across different ethnic and gender subgroups, we introduce our Balanced Faces in the Wild (BFW) dataset. This dataset allows for the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Joseph P Robinson , Can Qin , Yann Henon , Samson Timoner , Yun Fu

Understanding the performance of machine learning models across diverse data distributions is critically important for reliable applications. Motivated by this, there is a growing focus on curating benchmark datasets that capture…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Weixin Liang , James Zou