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Decision processes of computer vision models - especially deep neural networks - are opaque in nature, meaning that these decisions cannot be understood by humans. Thus, over the last years, many methods to provide human-understandable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Benjamin Fresz , Lena Lörcher , Marco Huber

Facial expression recognition plays an important role in human behaviour, communication, and interaction. Recent neural networks have demonstrated to perform well at its automatic recognition, with different explainability techniques…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Silvia Ramis Guarinos , Cristina Manresa Yee , Jose Maria Buades Rubio , Francesc Xavier Gaya-Morey

We have developed a convolutional neural network for the purpose of recognizing facial expressions in human beings. We have fine-tuned the existing convolutional neural network model trained on the visual recognition dataset used in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-29 Viraj Mavani , Shanmuganathan Raman , Krishna P Miyapuram

Automatic face recognition is a research area with high popularity. Many different face recognition algorithms have been proposed in the last thirty years of intensive research in the field. With the popularity of deep learning and its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Tiago de Freitas Pereira , Dominic Schmidli , Yu Linghu , Xinyi Zhang , Sébastien Marcel , Manuel Günther

Face recognition (FR) is an important task in pattern recognition and computer vision. Sparse representation (SR) has been demonstrated to be a powerful framework for FR. In general, an SR algorithm treats each face in a training dataset as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-09-19 Taiyong Li , Zhilin Zhang

Face super-resolution (FSR), also known as face hallucination, which is aimed at enhancing the resolution of low-resolution (LR) face images to generate high-resolution (HR) face images, is a domain-specific image super-resolution problem.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-02 Junjun Jiang , Chenyang Wang , Xianming Liu , Jiayi Ma

Saliency maps are widely used for visual explanations in deep learning, but a fundamental lack of consensus persists regarding their intended purpose and alignment with diverse user queries. This ambiguity hinders the effective evaluation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Yehonatan Elisha , Seffi Cohen , Oren Barkan , Noam Koenigstein

Face Recognition (FR) has advanced significantly with the development of deep learning, achieving high accuracy in several applications. However, the lack of interpretability of these systems raises concerns about their accountability,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Ivan DeAndres-Tame , Muhammad Faisal , Ruben Tolosana , Rouqaiah Al-Refai , Ruben Vera-Rodriguez , Philipp Terhörst

Human eyes concentrate different facial regions during distinct cognitive activities. We study utilising facial visual saliency maps to classify different facial expressions into different emotions. Our results show that our novel method of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-13 Zhenyue Qin , Jie Wu

How can we improve the facial soft-biometric classification with help of the human visual system? This paper explores the use of saliency which is equivalent to the human visual system to classify Age, Gender and Facial Expression…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-22 Ayesha Gurnani , Kenil Shah , Vandit Gajjar , Viraj Mavani , Yash Khandhediya

Face recognition (FR) systems continue to spread in our daily lives with an increasing demand for higher explainability and interpretability of FR systems that are mainly based on deep learning. While bias across demographic groups in FR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Marco Huber , Meiling Fang , Fadi Boutros , Naser Damer

Face recognition system is one of the esteemed research areas in pattern recognition and computer vision as long as its major challenges. A few challenges in recognizing faces are blur, illumination, and varied expressions. Blur is natural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-01 Anubha Pearline. S , Hemalatha. M

Conventionally, AI models are thought to trade off explainability for lower accuracy. We develop a training strategy that not only leads to a more explainable AI system for object classification, but as a consequence, suffers no perceptible…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Andrea Zunino , Sarah Adel Bargal , Riccardo Volpi , Mehrnoosh Sameki , Jianming Zhang , Stan Sclaroff , Vittorio Murino , Kate Saenko

Deep learning applies multiple processing layers to learn representations of data with multiple levels of feature extraction. This emerging technique has reshaped the research landscape of face recognition (FR) since 2014, launched by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Mei Wang , Weihong Deng

Explainable AI (XAI) methods focus on explaining what a neural network has learned - in other words, identifying the features that are the most influential to the prediction. In this paper, we call them "distinguishing features". However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Kaili Wang , Jose Oramas , Tinne Tuytelaars

Presentation attacks represent a critical security threat where adversaries use fake biometric data, such as face, fingerprint, or iris images, to gain unauthorized access to protected systems. Various presentation attack detection (PAD)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Rashik Shadman , M G Sarwar Murshed , Faraz Hussain

Heterogeneous face recognition (HFR) refers to matching face imagery across different domains. It has received much interest from the research community as a result of its profound implications in law enforcement. A wide variety of new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-10-13 Shuxin Ouyang , Timothy Hospedales , Yi-Zhe Song , Xueming Li

With Artificial Intelligence (AI) influencing the decision-making process of sensitive applications such as Face Verification, it is fundamental to ensure the transparency, fairness, and accountability of decisions. Although Explainable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Miriam Doh , Caroline Mazini Rodrigues , Nicolas Boutry , Laurent Najman , Matei Mancas , Hugues Bersini

The extensive utilization of biometric authentication systems have emanated attackers / imposters to forge user identity based on morphed images. In this attack, a synthetic image is produced and merged with genuine. Next, the resultant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Rudresh Dwivedi , Ritesh Kumar , Deepak Chopra , Pranay Kothari , Manjot Singh

Explaining a deep learning model can help users understand its behavior and allow researchers to discern its shortcomings. Recent work has primarily focused on explaining models for tasks like image classification or visual question…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Bryan A. Plummer , Mariya I. Vasileva , Vitali Petsiuk , Kate Saenko , David Forsyth