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Facial expression recognition (FER) systems in low-resolution settings face significant challenges in accurately identifying expressions due to the loss of fine-grained facial details. This limitation is especially problematic for…

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Deep learning methods have brought many breakthroughs to computer vision, especially in 2D face recognition. However, the bottleneck of deep learning based 3D face recognition is that it is difficult to collect millions of 3D faces, whether…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Cuican Yu , Zihui Zhang , Huibin Li

Deep Neural Network (DNN) has recently achieved outstanding performance in a variety of computer vision tasks, including facial attribute classification. The great success of classifying facial attributes with DNN often relies on a massive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-04 Ni Zhuang , Yan Yan , Si Chen , Hanzi Wang , Chunhua Shen

Although diffusion prior is rising as a powerful solution for blind face restoration (BFR), the inherent gap between the vanilla diffusion model and BFR settings hinders its seamless adaptation. The gap mainly stems from the discrepancy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Yunqi Miao , Zhiyu Qu , Mingqi Gao , Changrui Chen , Jifei Song , Jungong Han , Jiankang Deng

At present, face 3D reconstruction has broad application prospects in various fields, but the research on it is still in the development stage. In this paper, we hope to achieve better face 3D reconstruction quality by combining multi-view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Wenzhuo Zheng , Junhao Zhao , Xiaohong Liu , Yongyang Pan , Zhenghao Gan , Haozhe Han , Ning Liu

Edge detection is a long-standing problem in computer vision. Despite the efficiency of existing algorithms, their performance, however, rely heavily on the pre-trained weights of the backbone network on the ImageNet dataset. The use of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Chenguang Liu , Chisheng Wang , Feifei Dong , Xiayang Xiao , Xin Su , Chuanhua Zhu , Dejin Zhang , Qingquan Li

Emerging high-quality face restoration (FR) methods often utilize pre-trained GAN models (\textit{i.e.}, StyleGAN2) as GAN Prior. However, these methods usually struggle to balance realness and fidelity when facing various degradation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Yinhuai Wang , Yujie Hu , Jian Zhang

Interpreting scattered acoustic and electromagnetic wave patterns is a computational task that enables remote imaging in a number of important applications, including medical imaging, geophysical exploration, sonar and radar detection, and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-04-03 Owen Melia , Olivia Tsang , Vasileios Charisopoulos , Yuehaw Khoo , Jeremy Hoskins , Rebecca Willett

Face restoration is an inherently ill-posed problem, where additional prior constraints are typically considered crucial for mitigating such pathology. However, real-world image prior are often hard to simulate with precise mathematical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Lingbo Yang , Pan Wang , Zhanning Gao , Shanshe Wang , Peiran Ren , Siwei Ma , Wen Gao

Recently, linear computed tomography (LCT) systems have actively attracted attention. To weaken projection truncation and image the region of interest (ROI) for LCT, the backprojection filtration (BPF) algorithm is an effective solution.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Zhisheng Wang , Zihan Deng , Fenglin Liu , Yixing Huang , Haijun Yu , Junning Cui

Recent works based on deep learning and facial priors have succeeded in super-resolving severely degraded facial images. However, the prior knowledge is not fully exploited in existing methods, since facial priors such as landmark and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Cheng Ma , Zhenyu Jiang , Yongming Rao , Jiwen Lu , Jie Zhou

Recovery of a 3D head model including the complete face and hair regions is still a challenging problem in computer vision and graphics. In this paper, we consider this problem using only a few multi-view portrait images as input. Previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Xueying Wang , Yudong Guo , Zhongqi Yang , Juyong Zhang

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is an essential diagnostic tool that suffers from prolonged scan times. Reconstruction methods can alleviate this limitation by recovering clinically usable images from accelerated acquisitions. In…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-09 Salman UH Dar , Şaban Öztürk , Muzaffer Özbey , Tolga Çukur

In open data sets of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), the heterogeneity of the data is typically attributed to a combination of factors, including differences in scanning procedures, the presence of confounding effects, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Xin Wen , Shijie Guo , Wenbo Ning , Rui Cao , Yan Niu , Bin Wan , Peng Wei , Xiaobo Liu , Jie Xiang

Blind face restoration (BFR) is a highly challenging problem due to the uncertainty of data degradation patterns. Current BFR methods have realized certain restored productions but with inherent neural degradations that limit real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Nan Gao , Jia Li , Huaibo Huang , Ke Shang , Ran He

Face super-resolution is a technology that transforms a low-resolution face image into the corresponding high-resolution one. In this paper, we build a novel parsing map guided face super-resolution network which extracts the face prior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Chenyang Wang , Junjun Jiang , Zhiwei Zhong , Deming Zhai , Xianming Liu

Blind face restoration usually relies on facial priors, such as facial geometry prior or reference prior, to restore realistic and faithful details. However, very low-quality inputs cannot offer accurate geometric prior while high-quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Xintao Wang , Yu Li , Honglun Zhang , Ying Shan

Convolutional Neural Networks have reached extremely high performances on the Face Recognition task. Largely used datasets, such as VGGFace2, focus on gender, pose and age variations trying to balance them to achieve better results.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-23 Fabio Valerio Massoli , Giuseppe Amato , Fabrizio Falchi

Image restoration is a challenging and ill-posed problem which also has been a long-standing issue. However, most of learning based restoration methods are proposed to target one degradation type which means they are lack of generalization.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-07 Chi-Mao Fan , Tsung-Jung Liu , Kuan-Hsien Liu

We present SfSNet, an end-to-end learning framework for producing an accurate decomposition of an unconstrained human face image into shape, reflectance and illuminance. SfSNet is designed to reflect a physical lambertian rendering model.…

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