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Class imbalance remains a major challenge in machine learning, especially in multi-class problems with long-tailed distributions. Existing methods, such as data resampling, cost-sensitive techniques, and logistic loss modifications, though…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Corinna Cortes , Anqi Mao , Mehryar Mohri , Yutao Zhong

With the development of convolutional neural network, significant progress has been made in computer vision tasks. However, the commonly used loss function softmax loss and highly efficient network architecture for common visual tasks are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-27 Xianyang Li , Feng Wang , Qinghao Hu , Cong Leng

While deep learning-based methods for blind face restoration have achieved unprecedented success, they still suffer from two major limitations. First, most of them deteriorate when facing complex degradations out of their training data.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Zongsheng Yue , Chen Change Loy

Face recognition has achieved unprecedented results, surpassing human capabilities in certain scenarios. However, these automatic solutions are not ready for production because they can be easily fooled by simple identity impersonation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-18 Daniel Pérez-Cabo , David Jiménez-Cabello , Artur Costa-Pazo , Roberto J. López-Sastre

This paper proposes an additive phoneme-aware margin softmax (APM-Softmax) loss to train the multi-task learning network with phonetic information for language recognition. In additive margin softmax (AM-Softmax) loss, the margin is set as…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Zheng Li , Yan Liu , Lin Li , Qingyang Hong

The past few years have witnessed great progress in the domain of face recognition thanks to advances in deep learning. However, cross pose face recognition remains a significant challenge. It is difficult for many deep learning algorithms…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Junyang Huang , Changxing Ding

In this work, we investigate several methods and strategies to learn deep embeddings for face recognition, using joint sample- and set-based optimization. We explain our framework that expands traditional learning with set-based supervision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-09 Baris Gecer , Vassileios Balntas , Tae-Kyun Kim

We propose a simple modification from a fixed margin triplet loss to an adaptive margin triplet loss. While the original triplet loss is used widely in classification problems such as face recognition, face re-identification and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Mai Lan Ha , Volker Blanz

We motivate and present Ring loss, a simple and elegant feature normalization approach for deep networks designed to augment standard loss functions such as Softmax. We argue that deep feature normalization is an important aspect of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-02 Yutong Zheng , Dipan K. Pal , Marios Savvides

Face recognition has evolved significantly with the advancement of deep learning techniques, enabling its widespread adoption in various applications requiring secure authentication. However, this progress has also increased its exposure to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Iurii Medvedev , Nuno Goncalves

Facial recognition systems have achieved remarkable success by leveraging deep neural networks, advanced loss functions, and large-scale datasets. However, their performance often deteriorates in real-world scenarios involving low-quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Sadaf Gulshad , Abdullah Aldahlawi

Multi-modal deep metric learning is crucial for effectively capturing diverse representations in tasks such as face verification, fine-grained object recognition, and product search. Traditional approaches to metric learning, whether based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Hadush Hailu Gebrerufael , Anil Kumar Tiwari , Gaurav Neupane , Goitom Ybrah Hailu

Face Recognition (FR) is used in a variety of application domains, from entertainment and banking to security and surveillance. Such applications rely on the FR model to be robust and perform well in a variety of settings. To achieve this,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Žiga Babnik , Fadi Boutros , Naser Damer , Deepak Kumar Jain , Peter Peer , Vitomir Štruc

Face recognition (FR) methods report significant performance by adopting the convolutional neural network (CNN) based learning methods. Although CNNs are mostly trained by optimizing the softmax loss, the recent trend shows an improvement…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-10 Abul Hasnat , Julien Bohné , Jonathan Milgram , Stéphane Gentric , Liming Chen

The discriminability of feature representation is the key to open-set face recognition. Previous methods rely on the learnable weights of the classification layer that represent the identities. However, the evaluation process learns no…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Youzhe Song , Feng Wang

Whilst face recognition applications are becoming increasingly prevalent within our daily lives, leading approaches in the field still suffer from performance bias to the detriment of some racial profiles within society. In this study, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Seyma Yucer , Samet Akçay , Noura Al-Moubayed , Toby P. Breckon

Deep face recognition has achieved great success due to large-scale training databases and rapidly developing loss functions. The existing algorithms devote to realizing an ideal idea: minimizing the intra-class distance and maximizing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Yaoyao Zhong , Weihong Deng , Jiani Hu , Dongyue Zhao , Xian Li , Dongchao Wen

Face recognition is one of the most widely publicized feature in the devices today and hence represents an important problem that should be studied with the utmost priority. As per the recent trends, the Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-07 Yash Srivastava , Vaishnav Murali , Shiv Ram Dubey

Performance in face and speaker verification is largely driven by margin-based softmax losses such as CosFace and ArcFace. Recently introduced $\alpha$-divergence loss functions offer a compelling alternative, particularly due to their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Dimitrios Koutsianos , Ladislav Mosner , Yannis Panagakis , Themos Stafylakis

Few-shot learning (FSL) has attracted increasing attention in recent years but remains challenging, due to the intrinsic difficulty in learning to generalize from a few examples. This paper proposes an adaptive margin principle to improve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-29 Aoxue Li , Weiran Huang , Xu Lan , Jiashi Feng , Zhenguo Li , Liwei Wang