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Masked Face Recognition (MFR) is an increasingly important area in biometric recognition technologies, especially with the widespread use of masks as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. This development has created new challenges for facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Ali Haitham Abdul Amir , Zainab N. Nemer

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

Using the face as a biometric identity trait is motivated by the contactless nature of the capture process and the high accuracy of the recognition algorithms. After the current COVID-19 pandemic, wearing a face mask has been imposed in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Fadi Boutros , Naser Damer , Florian Kirchbuchner , Arjan Kuijper

Due to the epidemic of the coronavirus (Covid-19) and its rapid spread around the world, the world has faced an enormous crisis. To prevent the spread of the coronavirus, the World Health Organization (WHO) has introduced the use of masks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Abolfazl Younesi , Reza Afrouzian , Yousef Seyfari

Wearing a face mask is one of the adjustments we had to follow to reduce the spread of the coronavirus. Having our faces covered by masks constantly has driven the need to understand and investigate how this behavior affects the recognition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Mohammed R. Al-Sinan , Aseel F. Haneef , Hamzah Luqman

The emergence of the global COVID-19 pandemic poses new challenges for biometrics. Not only are contactless biometric identification options becoming more important, but face recognition has also recently been confronted with the frequent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Marco Huber , Fadi Boutros , Florian Kirchbuchner , Naser Damer

Face is one of the most important things for communication with the world around us. It also forms our identity and expressions. Estimating the face structure is a fundamental task in computer vision with applications in different areas…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-07 Kimia Dinashi , Ramin Toosi , Mohammad Ali Akhaee

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 become an essential task in our lives. However, the current COVID-19 pandemic has led to the widespread use of face masks. The effect of wearing face masks is currently an understudied issue. The aim of this paper is to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Ožbej Golob

The large pose discrepancy between two face images is one of the fundamental challenges in automatic face recognition. Conventional approaches to pose-invariant face recognition either perform face frontalization on, or learn a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-13 Luan Tran , Xi Yin , Xiaoming Liu

In the post-pandemic era, wearing face masks has posed great challenge to the ordinary face recognition. In the previous study, researchers has applied pretrained VGG16, and ResNet50 to extract features on the elaborate curated existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Rui Cai , Xuying Ning , Peter N. Belhumeur

Portrait editing is a popular subject in photo manipulation. The Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) advances the generating of realistic faces and allows more face editing. In this paper, we argue about three issues in existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-27 Shuyang Gu , Jianmin Bao , Hao Yang , Dong Chen , Fang Wen , Lu Yuan

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

AI based Face Recognition Systems (FRSs) are now widely distributed and deployed as MLaaS solutions all over the world, moreso since the COVID-19 pandemic for tasks ranging from validating individuals' faces while buying SIM cards to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Siddharth D Jaiswal , Ankit Kr. Verma , Animesh Mukherjee

In recent years, Deep Neural Networks (DNN) have emerged as a practical method for image recognition. The raw data, which contain sensitive information, are generally exploited within the training process. However, when the training process…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Qilong Li , Ji Liu , Yifan Sun , Chongsheng Zhang , Dejing Dou

While deep learning-based image reconstruction methods have shown significant success in removing objects from pictures, they have yet to achieve acceptable results for attributing consistency to gender, ethnicity, expression, and other…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Gourango Modak , Shuvra Smaran Das , Md. Ajharul Islam Miraj , Md. Kishor Morol

The recent progress in generative models has revolutionized the synthesis of highly realistic images, including face images. This technological development has undoubtedly helped face recognition, such as training data augmentation for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Yuguang Yao , Steven Grosz , Sijia Liu , Anil Jain

Face detection in unrestricted conditions has been a trouble for years due to various expressions, brightness, and coloration fringing. Recent studies show that deep learning knowledge of strategies can acquire spectacular performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Sameer Aqib Hashmi

In recent advances of deep generative models, face reenactment -manipulating and controlling human face, including their head movement-has drawn much attention for its wide range of applicability. Despite its strong expressiveness, it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Takuya Yashima , Takuya Narihira , Tamaki Kojima

Facial video inpainting plays a crucial role in a wide range of applications, including but not limited to the removal of obstructions in video conferencing and telemedicine, enhancement of facial expression analysis, privacy protection,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Fatemeh Ghorbani Lohesara , Karen Egiazarian , Sebastian Knorr