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While the accuracy of face recognition systems has improved significantly in recent years, the datasets used to train these models are often collected through web crawling without the explicit consent of users, raising ethical and privacy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Anjith George , Sebastien Marcel

The success of AI models relies on the availability of large, diverse, and high-quality datasets, which can be challenging to obtain due to data scarcity, privacy concerns, and high costs. Synthetic data has emerged as a promising solution…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Ruibo Liu , Jerry Wei , Fangyu Liu , Chenglei Si , Yanzhe Zhang , Jinmeng Rao , Steven Zheng , Daiyi Peng , Diyi Yang , Denny Zhou , Andrew M. Dai

Advances in face synthesis have raised alarms about the deceptive use of synthetic faces. Can synthetic identities be effectively used to fool human observers? In this paper, we introduce a study of the human perception of synthetic faces…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Bingyu Shen , Brandon RichardWebster , Alice O'Toole , Kevin Bowyer , Walter J. Scheirer

Large-scale face recognition datasets are collected by crawling the Internet and without individuals' consent, raising legal, ethical, and privacy concerns. With the recent advances in generative models, recently several works proposed…

It is well known that deep learning approaches to face recognition and facial landmark detection suffer from biases in modern training datasets. In this work, we propose to use synthetic face images to reduce the negative effects of dataset…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Adam Kortylewski , Bernhard Egger , Andreas Morel-Forster , Andreas Schneider , Thomas Gerig , Clemens Blumer , Corius Reyneke , Thomas Vetter

This study investigates the possibility of mitigating the demographic biases that affect face recognition technologies through the use of synthetic data. Demographic biases have the potential to impact individuals from specific demographic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Pietro Melzi , Christian Rathgeb , Ruben Tolosana , Ruben Vera-Rodriguez , Aythami Morales , Dominik Lawatsch , Florian Domin , Maxim Schaubert

Face synthesis has been a fascinating yet challenging problem in computer vision and machine learning. Its main research effort is to design algorithms to generate photo-realistic face images via given semantic domain. It has been a crucial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-16 Zhihe Lu , Zhihang Li , Jie Cao , Ran He , Zhenan Sun

Face recognition is a rapidly developing and widely applied aspect of biometric technologies. Its applications are broad, ranging from law enforcement to consumer applications, and industry efficiency and monitoring solutions. The recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-31 Andrew Jason Shepley

Face detection is a long-standing challenge in the field of computer vision, with the ultimate goal being to accurately localize human faces in an unconstrained environment. There are significant technical hurdles in making these systems…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Necdet Gurkan , Jordan W. Suchow

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

Over the past years, the main research innovations in face recognition focused on training deep neural networks on large-scale identity-labeled datasets using variations of multi-class classification losses. However, many of these datasets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Fadi Boutros , Marcel Klemt , Meiling Fang , Arjan Kuijper , Naser Damer

Currently, the rapid development of computer vision and deep learning has enabled the creation or manipulation of high-fidelity facial images and videos via deep generative approaches. This technology, also known as deepfake, has achieved…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Lixia Ma , Puning Yang , Yuting Xu , Ziming Yang , Peipei Li , Huaibo Huang

The vast progress in synthetic image synthesis enables the generation of facial images in high resolution and photorealism. In biometric applications, the main motivation for using synthetic data is to solve the shortage of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-18 Marcel Grimmer , Haoyu Zhang , Raghavendra Ramachandra , Kiran Raja , Christoph Busch

Synthetic data is emerging as a cost-effective solution necessary to meet the increasing data demands of AI development, created either from existing knowledge or derived from real data. The traditional classification of synthetic data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Vibeke Binz Vallevik , Serena Elizabeth Marshall , Aleksandar Babic , Jan Franz Nygaard

The availability of large-scale authentic face databases has been crucial to the significant advances made in face recognition research over the past decade. However, legal and ethical concerns led to the recent retraction of many of these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Fadi Boutros , Jonas Henry Grebe , Arjan Kuijper , Naser Damer

The proliferation of deep learning techniques led to a wide range of advanced analytics applications in important business areas such as predictive maintenance or product recommendation. However, as the effectiveness of advanced analytics…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Peter Kowalczyk , Giacomo Welsch , Frédéric Thiesse

Recent advances in machine learning and computer vision have led to reported facial recognition accuracies surpassing human performance. We question if these systems will translate to real-world forensic scenarios in which a potentially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-13 Justin Norman , Shruti Agarwal , Hany Farid

The accuracy of face recognition systems has improved significantly in the past few years, thanks to the large amount of data collected and advancements in neural network architectures. However, these large-scale datasets are often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Anjith George , Sebastien Marcel

Systems that analyse faces have seen significant improvements in recent years and are today used in numerous application scenarios. However, these systems have been found to be negatively affected by facial alterations such as tattoos. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-09 Mathias Ibsen , Christian Rathgeb , Pawel Drozdowski , Christoph Busch

AI systems rely on extensive training on large datasets to address various tasks. However, image-based systems, particularly those used for demographic attribute prediction, face significant challenges. Many current face image datasets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Georgia Baltsou , Ioannis Sarridis , Christos Koutlis , Symeon Papadopoulos