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Deep learning-based domain-invariant feature learning methods are advancing in near-infrared and visible (NIR-VIS) heterogeneous face recognition. However, these methods are prone to overfitting due to the large intra-class variation and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-09 Ha Le , Ioannis A. Kakadiaris

Heterogeneous Face Recognition (HFR) is a challenging issue because of the large domain discrepancy and a lack of heterogeneous data. This paper considers HFR as a dual generation problem, and proposes a novel Dual Variational Generation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Chaoyou Fu , Xiang Wu , Yibo Hu , Huaibo Huang , Ran He

Large facial variations are the main challenge in face recognition. To this end, previous variation-specific methods make full use of task-related prior to design special network losses, which are typically not general among different tasks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Yuge Huang , Pengcheng Shen , Ying Tai , Shaoxin Li , Xiaoming Liu , Jilin Li , Feiyue Huang , Rongrong Ji

Facial expression classification remains a challenging task due to the high dimensionality and inherent complexity of facial image data. This paper presents Hy-Facial, a hybrid feature extraction framework that integrates both deep learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Xinjin Li , Yu Ma , Kaisen Ye , Jinghan Cao , Minghao Zhou , Yeyang Zhou

Appearance-based gaze estimation, aiming to predict accurate 3D gaze direction from a single facial image, has made promising progress in recent years. However, most methods suffer significant performance degradation in cross-domain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Qida Tan , Hongyu Yang , Wenchao Du

In Heterogeneous Face Recognition (HFR), the objective is to match faces across two different domains such as visible and thermal. Large domain discrepancy makes HFR a difficult problem. Recent methods attempting to fill the gap via…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Yiqun Mei , Pengfei Guo , Vishal M. Patel

To achieve good performance in face recognition, a large scale training dataset is usually required. A simple yet effective way to improve recognition performance is to use a dataset as large as possible by combining multiple datasets in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-15 Gaoang Wang , Lin Chen , Tianqiang Liu , Mingwei He , Jiebo Luo

For the past decades, face recognition (FR) has been actively studied in computer vision and pattern recognition society. Recently, due to the advances in deep learning, the FR technology shows high performance for most of the benchmark…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Hyung-Il Kim , Kimin Yun , Yong Man Ro

Recognizing human actions from varied views is challenging due to huge appearance variations in different views. The key to this problem is to learn discriminant view-invariant representations generalizing well across views. In this paper,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Yang Liu , Zhaoyang Lu , Jing Li , Tao Yang

Heterogeneous face recognition (HFR) refers to matching face images acquired from different domains with wide applications in security scenarios. This paper presents a deep neural network approach namely Multi-Margin based Decorrelation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Bing Cao , Nannan Wang , Xinbo Gao , Jie Li , Zhifeng Li

Heterogeneous Face Recognition (HFR) addresses the challenge of matching face images across different sensing modalities, such as thermal to visible or near-infrared to visible, expanding the applicability of face recognition systems in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Anjith George , Sebastien Marcel

Face recognition systems are usually faced with unseen domains in real-world applications and show unsatisfactory performance due to their poor generalization. For example, a well-trained model on webface data cannot deal with the ID vs.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-26 Jianzhu Guo , Xiangyu Zhu , Chenxu Zhao , Dong Cao , Zhen Lei , Stan Z. Li

For domain generalization (DG) and unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA), cross domain feature alignment has been widely explored to pull the feature distributions of different domains in order to learn domain-invariant representations.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Xin Jin , Cuiling Lan , Wenjun Zeng , Zhibo Chen

Dimensionality reduction (DR) plays a vital role in the visual analysis of high-dimensional data. One main aim of DR is to reveal hidden patterns that lie on intrinsic low-dimensional manifolds. However, DR often overlooks important…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Takanori Fujiwara , Yun-Hsin Kuo , Anders Ynnerman , Kwan-Liu Ma

NIR-to-VIS face recognition is identifying faces of two different domains by extracting domain-invariant features. However, this is a challenging problem due to the two different domain characteristics, and the lack of NIR face dataset. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-05 MyeongAh Cho , Tae-young Chun , g Taeoh Kim , Sangyoun Lee

Optical flow is an easily conceived and precious cue for advancing unsupervised video object segmentation (UVOS). Most of the previous methods directly extract and fuse the motion and appearance features for segmenting target objects in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Gensheng Pei , Fumin Shen , Yazhou Yao , Guo-Sen Xie , Zhenmin Tang , Jinhui Tang

Dynamic Facial Expression Recognition (DFER) plays a critical role in affective computing and human-computer interaction. Although existing methods achieve comparable performance, they inevitably suffer from performance degradation under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Feng-Qi Cui , Anyang Tong , Jinyang Huang , Jie Zhang , Dan Guo , Zhi Liu , Meng Wang

This paper presents a novel approach for unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) targeting H&E stained histology images. Existing adversarial domain adaptation methods may not effectively align different domains of multimodal distributions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Ravi Kant Gupta , Shounak Das , Amit Sethi

In real-world scenarios, many factors may harm face recognition performance, e.g., large pose, bad illumination,low resolution, blur and noise. To address these challenges, previous efforts usually first restore the low-quality faces to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-21 Xiaoguang Tu , Jian Zhao , Qiankun Liu , Wenjie Ai , Guodong Guo , Zhifeng Li , Wei Liu , Jiashi Feng

Heterogeneous Face Recognition (HFR) aims to match face images across different domains, such as thermal and visible spectra, expanding the applicability of Face Recognition (FR) systems to challenging scenarios. However, the domain gap and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-17 Anjith George , Sebastien Marcel