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Developing a reliable and practical face recognition system is a long-standing goal in computer vision research. Existing literature suggests that pixel-wise face alignment is the key to achieve high-accuracy face recognition. By assuming a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-01-21 Yuting Zhang , Kui Jia , Yueming Wang , Gang Pan , Tsung-Han Chan , Yi Ma

Talking face generation aims to synthesize a face video with precise lip synchronization as well as a smooth transition of facial motion over the entire video via the given speech clip and facial image. Most existing methods mainly focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-14 Hao Zhu , Huaibo Huang , Yi Li , Aihua Zheng , Ran He

Self-supervised representation learning has gained increasing attention for strong generalization ability without relying on paired datasets. However, it has not been explored sufficiently for facial representation. Self-supervised facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Ruian He , Zhen Xing , Weimin Tan , Bo Yan

Face recognition is a mainstream biometric authentication method. However, vulnerability to presentation attacks (a.k.a spoofing) limits its usability in unsupervised applications. Even though there are many methods available for tackling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-20 Anjith George , Zohreh Mostaani , David Geissenbuhler , Olegs Nikisins , Andre Anjos , Sebastien Marcel

End-to-end autonomous driving (E2E-AD) has rapidly emerged as a promising approach toward achieving full autonomy. However, existing E2E-AD systems typically adopt a traditional multi-task framework, addressing perception, prediction, and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Tao Wang , Cong Zhang , Xingguang Qu , Kun Li , Weiwei Liu , Chang Huang

Principal Component Analysis (PCA) minimizes the reconstruction error given a class of linear models of fixed component dimensionality. Probabilistic PCA adds a probabilistic structure by learning the probability distribution of the PCA…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Vanessa Böhm , Uroš Seljak

Realistic age-progressed photos provide invaluable biometric information in a wide range of applications. In recent years, deep learning-based approaches have made remarkable progress in modeling the aging process of the human face.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Yao Xiao , Yijun Zhao

Multi-modal data-sets are ubiquitous in modern applications, and multi-modal Variational Autoencoders are a popular family of models that aim to learn a joint representation of the different modalities. However, existing approaches suffer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Mustapha Bounoua , Giulio Franzese , Pietro Michiardi

Conventional methods for facial age analysis tend to utilize accurate age labels in a supervised way. However, existing age datasets lies in a limited range of ages, leading to a long-tailed distribution. To alleviate the problem, this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Peipei Li , Huaibo Huang , Yibo Hu , Xiang Wu , Ran He , Zhenan Sun

In this paper, we introduce a simple and novel framework for one-shot audio-driven talking head generation. Unlike prior works that require additional driving sources for controlled synthesis in a deterministic manner, we instead…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Zhentao Yu , Zixin Yin , Deyu Zhou , Duomin Wang , Finn Wong , Baoyuan Wang

Generative AI framework-based modeling and prediction of longitudinal human brain images offer an efficient mechanism to track neurodegenerative progression, essential for the assessment of diseases like Alzheimer's. Among the existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Ayantika Das , Keerthi Ram , Mohanasankar Sivaprakasam

We propose CLAD -- a Constrained Latent Action Diffusion model for vision-language procedure planning in instructional videos. Procedure planning is the challenging task of predicting intermediate actions given a visual observation of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Lei Shi , Andreas Bulling

Photoacoustic imaging (PAI) is a non-invasive imaging modality that detects the ultrasound signal generated from tissue with light excitation. Photoacoustic computed tomography (PACT) uses unfocused large-area light to illuminate the target…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-13 Hengrong Lan , Jiali Gong , Fei Gao

While unsupervised variational autoencoders (VAE) have become a powerful tool in neuroimage analysis, their application to supervised learning is under-explored. We aim to close this gap by proposing a unified probabilistic model for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-15 Qingyu Zhao , Ehsan Adeli , Nicolas Honnorat , Tuo Leng , Kilian M. Pohl

Active Appearance Model (AAM) is a commonly used method for facial image analysis with applications in face identification and facial expression recognition. This paper proposes a new approach based on image alignment for AAM fitting called…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-11-23 Ali Mollahosseini , Mohammad H. Mahoor

Augmentation for dense prediction typically relies on either sample mixing or generative synthesis. Mixing improves robustness but misaligned masks yield soft label ambiguity. Diffusion synthesis increases apparent diversity but, when…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Pengyu Jie , Wanquan Liu , Rui He , Yihui Wen , Deyu Meng , Chenqiang Gao

This paper presents a novel Subject-dependent Deep Aging Path (SDAP), which inherits the merits of both Generative Probabilistic Modeling and Inverse Reinforcement Learning to model the facial structures and the longitudinal face aging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-05 Chi Nhan Duong , Kha Gia Quach , Khoa Luu , T. Hoang Ngan Le , Marios Savvides , Tien D. Bui

This study presents Latent Diffusion Autoencoder (LDAE), a novel encoder-decoder diffusion-based framework for efficient and meaningful unsupervised learning in medical imaging, focusing on Alzheimer disease (AD) using brain MR from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Gabriele Lozupone , Alessandro Bria , Francesco Fontanella , Frederick J. A. Meijer , Claudio De Stefano , Henkjan Huisman

Most image completion methods produce only one result for each masked input, although there may be many reasonable possibilities. In this paper, we present an approach for \textbf{pluralistic image completion} -- the task of generating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Chuanxia Zheng , Tat-Jen Cham , Jianfei Cai

Diffusion models conditioned on identity embeddings enable the generation of synthetic face images that consistently preserve identity across multiple samples. Recent work has shown that introducing an additional negative condition through…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Eduarda Caldeira , Tahar Chettaoui , Naser Damer , Fadi Boutros