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Image quality assessment(IQA) is of increasing importance for image-based applications. Its purpose is to establish a model that can replace humans for accurately evaluating image quality. According to whether the reference image is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-12 Lanjiang Wang

To support the application scenarios where high-resolution (HR) images are urgently needed, various single image super-resolution (SISR) algorithms are developed. However, SISR is an ill-posed inverse problem, which may bring artifacts like…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-10 Zicheng Zhang , Wei Sun , Xiongkuo Min , Wenhan Zhu , Tao Wang , Wei Lu , Guangtao Zhai

Face Recognition (FR) plays a crucial role in many critical (high-stakes) applications, where errors in the recognition process can lead to serious consequences. Face Image Quality Assessment (FIQA) techniques enhance FR systems by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Žiga Babnik , Deepak Kumar Jain , Peter Peer , Vitomir Štruc

With the rapid development of AI-generated content (AIGC) technology, the production of realistic fake facial images and videos that deceive human visual perception has become possible. Consequently, various face forgery detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Yijun Bei , Hengrui Lou , Jinsong Geng , Erteng Liu , Lechao Cheng , Jie Song , Mingli Song , Zunlei Feng

In recent years, image classification, as a core task in computer vision, relies on high-quality labelled data, which restricts the wide application of deep learning models in practical scenarios. To alleviate the problem of insufficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Jiyu Hu , Haijiang Zeng , Zhen Tian

The availability of large-scale face datasets has been key in the progress of face recognition. However, due to licensing issues or copyright infringement, some datasets are not available anymore (e.g. MS-Celeb-1M). Recent advances in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Laurent Colbois , Tiago de Freitas Pereira , Sébastien Marcel

We present a deep neural network-based approach to image quality assessment (IQA). The network is trained end-to-end and comprises ten convolutional layers and five pooling layers for feature extraction, and two fully connected layers for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-11 Sebastian Bosse , Dominique Maniry , Klaus-Robert Müller , Thomas Wiegand , Wojciech Samek

Achieving state-of-the-art results in face verification systems typically hinges on the availability of labeled face training data, a resource that often proves challenging to acquire in substantial quantities. In this research endeavor, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Enoch Solomon , Abraham Woubie , Eyael Solomon Emiru

Improving the aesthetic quality of images is challenging and eager for the public. To address this problem, most existing algorithms are based on supervised learning methods to learn an automatic photo enhancer for paired data, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-06 Zhangkai Ni , Wenhan Yang , Shiqi Wang , Lin Ma , Sam Kwong

This paper is on image and face super-resolution. The vast majority of prior work for this problem focus on how to increase the resolution of low-resolution images which are artificially generated by simple bilinear down-sampling (or in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Adrian Bulat , Jing Yang , Georgios Tzimiropoulos

Face recognition performance based on deep learning heavily relies on large-scale training data, which is often difficult to acquire in practical applications. To address this challenge, this paper proposes a GAN-based data augmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Zhongwen Li , Zongwei Li , Xiaoqi Li

In the field of medical image analysis, there is a substantial need for high-resolution (HR) images to improve diagnostic accuracy. However, it is a challenging task to obtain HR medical images, as it requires advanced instruments and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-25 Alireza Aghelan , Modjtaba Rouhani

Contemporary face recognition (FR) models achieve near-ideal recognition performance in constrained settings, yet do not fully translate the performance to unconstrained (realworld) scenarios. To help improve the performance and stability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Žiga Babnik , Naser Damer , Vitomir Štruc

State-of-the-art face recognition systems require vast amounts of labeled training data. Given the priority of privacy in face recognition applications, the data is limited to celebrity web crawls, which have issues such as limited numbers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Artem Sevastopolsky , Yury Malkov , Nikita Durasov , Luisa Verdoliva , Matthias Nießner

As the deep learning makes big progresses in still-image face recognition, unconstrained video face recognition is still a challenging task due to low quality face images caused by pose, blur, occlusion, illumination etc. In this paper we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Rushuai Liu , Weijun Tan

Most of current display devices are with eight or higher bit-depth. However, the quality of most multimedia tools cannot achieve this bit-depth standard for the generating images. De-quantization can improve the visual quality of low…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-08 Yang Zhang , Changhui Hu , Xiaobo Lu

Image inpainting is a valuable technique for enhancing images that have been corrupted. The primary challenge in this research revolves around the extent of corruption in the input image that the deep learning model must restore. To address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Mehrshad Momen-Tayefeh , Mehrdad Momen-Tayefeh , Amir Ali Ghafourian Ghahramani

Current supervised methods for facial landmark detection require a large amount of training data and may suffer from overfitting to specific datasets due to the massive number of parameters. We introduce a semi-supervised method in which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-22 Bjoern Browatzki , Christian Wallraven

With the effective application of deep learning in computer vision, breakthroughs have been made in the research of super-resolution images reconstruction. However, many researches have pointed out that the insufficiency of the neural…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-11 Yibo Guo , Haidi Wang , Yiming Fan , Shunyao Li , Mingliang Xu

Face verification has come into increasing focus in various applications including the European Entry/Exit System, which integrates face recognition mechanisms. At the same time, the rapid advancement of biometric authentication requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Haoyu Zhang , Marcel Grimmer , Raghavendra Ramachandra , Kiran Raja , Christoph Busch