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This work proposes a saliency-based attribution framework to evaluate and compare 10 state-of-the-art explainability methods for deep learning models in astronomy, focusing on the classification of radio galaxy images. While previous work…

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Post-mortem iris recognition can offer an additional forensic method of personal identification. However, in contrary to already well-established human examination of fingerprints, making iris recognition human-interpretable is harder, and…

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Deep learning has become the de facto standard and dominant paradigm in image analysis tasks, achieving state-of-the-art performance. However, this approach often results in "black-box" models, whose decision-making processes are difficult…

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Saliency methods are a popular class of feature attribution explanation methods that aim to capture a model's predictive reasoning by identifying "important" pixels in an input image. However, the development and adoption of these methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Joon Sik Kim , Gregory Plumb , Ameet Talwalkar

Neural Networks are the state of the art for many tasks in the computer vision domain, including Writer Identification (WI) and Writer Verification (WV). The transparency of these "black box" systems is important for improvements of…

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With the transition of facial expression recognition (FER) from laboratory-controlled to challenging in-the-wild conditions and the recent success of deep learning techniques in various fields, deep neural networks have increasingly been…

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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…

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Face detection is to search all the possible regions for faces in images and locate the faces if there are any. Many applications including face recognition, facial expression recognition, face tracking and head-pose estimation assume that…

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Vision-language models (VLMs) have achieved remarkable success across diverse tasks. However, concerns about their trustworthiness persist, particularly regarding tendencies to lean more on textual cues than visual evidence and the risk of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Shizhan Gong , Minda Hu , Qiyuan Zhang , Chen Ma , Qi Dou

The standard approach to unconstrained face recognition in natural photographs is via a detection, alignment, recognition pipeline. While that approach has achieved impressive results, there are several reasons to be dissatisfied with it,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-03-27 Qianli Liao , Joel Z Leibo , Youssef Mroueh , Tomaso Poggio

Person retrieval faces many challenges including cluttered background, appearance variations (e.g., illumination, pose, occlusion) among different camera views and the similarity among different person's images. To address these issues, we…

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The discriminability of feature representation is the key to open-set face recognition. Previous methods rely on the learnable weights of the classification layer that represent the identities. However, the evaluation process learns no…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Youzhe Song , Feng Wang

Face Recognition (FR) technology has made significant strides with the emergence of deep learning. Typically, most existing FR models are built upon Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) and take RGB face images as the model's input. In this…

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This report concerns the use of techniques for sparse signal representation and sparse error correction for automatic face recognition. Much of the recent interest in these techniques comes from the paper "Robust Face Recognition via Sparse…

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In this paper, we share our experience in designing a convolutional network-based face detector that could handle faces of an extremely wide range of scales. We show that faces with different scales can be modeled through a specialized set…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-12 Shuo Yang , Yuanjun Xiong , Chen Change Loy , Xiaoou Tang

Face recognition has achieved outstanding performance in the last decade with the development of deep learning techniques. Nowadays, the challenges in face recognition are related to specific scenarios, for instance, the performance under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Iurii Medvedev , Farhad Shadmand , Nuno Gonçalves

Face recognition (FR) stands as one of the most crucial applications in computer vision. The accuracy of FR models has significantly improved in recent years due to the availability of large-scale human face datasets. However, directly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Xiao Lin , Yuge Huang , Jianqing Xu , Yuxi Mi , Shuigeng Zhou , Shouhong Ding

Machine learning is currently undergoing an explosion in capability, popularity, and sophistication. However, one of the major barriers to widespread acceptance of machine learning (ML) is trustworthiness: most ML models operate as black…

With the growing availability of databases for face presentation attack detection, researchers are increasingly focusing on video-based face anti-spoofing methods that involve hundreds to thousands of images for training the models.…

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