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Face detection has witnessed immense progress in the last few years, with new milestones being surpassed every year. While many challenges such as large variations in scale, pose, appearance are successfully addressed, there still exist…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-09 Hajime Nada , Vishwanath A. Sindagi , He Zhang , Vishal M. Patel

During the COVID-19 pandemic, face masks have become ubiquitous in our lives. Face masks can cause some face recognition models to fail since they cover significant portion of a face. In addition, removing face masks from captured images or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Minmin Yang

Over the last twenty years, there have seen several outbreaks of different coronavirus diseases across the world. These outbreaks often led to respiratory tract diseases and have proved to be fatal sometimes. Currently, we are facing an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Bishwas Mandal , Adaeze Okeukwu , Yihong Theis

Accurate face recognition techniques make a series of critical applications possible: policemen could employ it to retrieve criminals' faces from surveillance video streams; cross boarder travelers could pass a face authentication…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-03-14 Zhe Zhou , Di Tang , Xiaofeng Wang , Weili Han , Xiangyu Liu , Kehuan Zhang

Face recognition under ideal conditions is now considered a well-solved problem with advances in deep learning. Recognizing faces under occlusion, however, still remains a challenge. Existing techniques often fail to recognize faces with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Shaozhe Hao , Chaofeng Chen , Zhenfang Chen , Kwan-Yee K. Wong

Working with Child Sexual Exploitation Material (CSEM) in forensic applications might be benefited from the progress in automatic face recognition. However, discriminative parts of a face in CSEM, i.e., mostly the eyes, could be often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-27 Rubel Biswas , Pablo Blanco-Medina

Face recognition from image or video is a popular topic in biometrics research. Many public places usually have surveillance cameras for video capture and these cameras have their significant value for security purpose. It is widely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-02-27 Faizan Ahmad , Aaima Najam , Zeeshan Ahmed

Face obfuscation (blurring, mosaicing, etc.) has been shown to be effective for privacy protection; nevertheless, object recognition research typically assumes access to complete, unobfuscated images. In this paper, we explore the effects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Kaiyu Yang , Jacqueline Yau , Li Fei-Fei , Jia Deng , Olga Russakovsky

Face recognition presents a challenging problem in the field of image analysis and computer vision. The security of information is becoming very significant and difficult. Security cameras are presently common in airports, Offices,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-03-04 Divyarajsinh N. Parmar , Brijesh B. Mehta

To see what is not in the image is one of the broader missions of computer vision. Technology to inpaint images has made significant progress with the coming of deep learning. This paper proposes a method to tackle occlusion specific to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Surabhi Gupta , Ashwath Shetty , Avinash Sharma

During the COVID-19 coronavirus epidemic, almost everyone wears a facial mask, which poses a huge challenge to deep face recognition. In this workshop, we organize Masked Face Recognition (MFR) challenge and focus on bench-marking deep face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Jiankang Deng , Jia Guo , Xiang An , Zheng Zhu , Stefanos Zafeiriou

Recognizing the same faces with and without masks is important for ensuring consistent identification in security, access control, and public safety. This capability is crucial in scenarios like law enforcement, healthcare, and…

The recent Covid-19 pandemic and the fact that wearing masks in public is now mandatory in several countries, created challenges in the use of face recognition systems (FRS). In this work, we address the challenge of masked face recognition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Pedro C. Neto , Fadi Boutros , João Ribeiro Pinto , Mohsen Saffari , Naser Damer , Ana F. Sequeira , Jaime S. Cardoso

Face recognition has been an active research area in the past few decades. In general, face recognition can be very challenging due to variations in viewpoint, illumination, facial expression, etc. Therefore it is essential to extract…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-04 Shervin Minaee , Amirali Abdolrashidi , Yao Wang

With the continuous impact of epidemics, people have become accustomed to wearing masks. However, most current occluded face recognition (OFR) algorithms lack prior knowledge of occlusions, resulting in poor performance when dealing with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Qiannan Fan , Zhuoyang Li , Jitong Li , Chenyang Cao

Face masks have become one of the main methods for reducing the transmission of COVID-19. This makes face recognition (FR) a challenging task because masks hide several discriminative features of faces. Moreover, face presentation attack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Meiling Fang , Naser Damer , Florian Kirchbuchner , Arjan Kuijper

In the absence of vaccines or medicines to stop COVID-19, one of the effective methods to slow the spread of the coronavirus and reduce the overloading of healthcare is to wear a face mask. Nevertheless, to mandate the use of face masks or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Chun-Wei Yang , Thanh-Hai Phung , Hong-Han Shuai , Wen-Huang Cheng

Currently, deep learning has been utilised to tackle several difficulties in our everyday lives. It not only exhibits progress in computer vision but also constitutes the foundation for several revolutionary technologies. Nonetheless,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Li Kun , Milena Radenkovic

Face detection is a crucial first step in many facial recognition and face analysis systems. Early approaches for face detection were mainly based on classifiers built on top of hand-crafted features extracted from local image regions, such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-15 Shervin Minaee , Ping Luo , Zhe Lin , Kevin Bowyer

Although person re-identification has made impressive progress, occlusion caused by obstacles remains an unsettled issue in real applications. The difficulty lies in the mismatch between incomplete occluded samples and holistic identity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Lei Tan , Yingshi Luan , Pincong Zou , Pingyang Dai , Liujuan Cao