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During the COVID-19 coronavirus epidemic, almost everyone wears a facial mask, which poses a huge challenge to deep face recognition. In this workshop, we organize Masked Face Recognition (MFR) challenge and focus on bench-marking deep face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Jiankang Deng , Jia Guo , Xiang An , Zheng Zhu , Stefanos Zafeiriou

In real-world scenarios, many factors may harm face recognition performance, e.g., large pose, bad illumination,low resolution, blur and noise. To address these challenges, previous efforts usually first restore the low-quality faces to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-21 Xiaoguang Tu , Jian Zhao , Qiankun Liu , Wenjie Ai , Guodong Guo , Zhifeng Li , Wei Liu , Jiashi Feng

In this paper, we propose an effective feature extraction algorithm, called Multi-Subregion based Correlation Filter Bank (MS-CFB), for robust face recognition. MS-CFB combines the benefits of global-based and local-based feature extraction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-03-25 Yan Yan , Hanzi Wang , David Suter

Attention-based models have been widely used in many areas, such as computer vision and natural language processing. However, relevant applications in time series classification (TSC) have not been explored deeply yet, causing a significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Bowen Zhao , Huanlai Xing , Xinhan Wang , Fuhong Song , Zhiwen Xiao

In the absence of vaccines or medicines to stop COVID-19, one of the effective methods to slow the spread of the coronavirus and reduce the overloading of healthcare is to wear a face mask. Nevertheless, to mandate the use of face masks or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Chun-Wei Yang , Thanh-Hai Phung , Hong-Han Shuai , Wen-Huang Cheng

In this paper, we address the problem of face recognition with masks. Given the global health crisis caused by COVID-19, mouth and nose-covering masks have become an essential everyday-clothing-accessory. This sanitary measure has put the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-22 David Montero , Marcos Nieto , Peter Leskovsky , Naiara Aginako

Recognizing the expressions of partially occluded faces is a challenging computer vision problem. Previous expression recognition methods, either overlooked this issue or resolved it using extreme assumptions. Motivated by the fact that the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-14 Hui Ding , Peng Zhou , Rama Chellappa

Facial representation pre-training is crucial for tasks like facial recognition, expression analysis, and virtual reality. However, existing methods face three key challenges: (1) failing to capture distinct facial features and fine-grained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Yin Xie , Zhichao Chen , Zeyu Xiao , Yongle Zhao , Xiang An , Kaicheng Yang , Zimin Ran , Jia Guo , Ziyong Feng , Jiankang Deng

With the recent world-wide COVID-19 pandemic, using face masks have become an important part of our lives. People are encouraged to cover their faces when in public area to avoid the spread of infection. The use of these face masks has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-26 Aqeel Anwar , Arijit Raychowdhury

Self-supervised pre-training has been proved to be effective in learning transferable representations that benefit various visual tasks. This paper asks this question: can self-supervised pre-training learn general facial representations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Zheng Gao , Ioannis Patras

Currently in the domain of facial analysis single task approaches for face detection and landmark localization dominate. In this paper we draw attention to multi-task models solving both tasks simultaneously. We present a highly accurate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Dmitry Yashunin , Tamir Baydasov , Roman Vlasov

The recent COVID-19 pandemic has increased the focus on hygienic and contactless identity verification methods. However, the pandemic led to the wide use of face masks, essential to keep the pandemic under control. The effect of wearing a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Naser Damer , Fadi Boutros , Marius Süßmilch , Meiling Fang , Florian Kirchbuchner , Arjan Kuijper

As more and more people begin to wear masks due to current COVID-19 pandemic, existing face recognition systems may encounter severe performance degradation when recognizing masked faces. To figure out the impact of masks on face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Chengrui Wang , Han Fang , Yaoyao Zhong , Weihong Deng

Robust face detection is one of the most important pre-processing steps to support facial expression analysis, facial landmarking, face recognition, pose estimation, building of 3D facial models, etc. Although this topic has been intensely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-01-03 Yutong Zheng , Chenchen Zhu , Khoa Luu , Chandrasekhar Bhagavatula , T. Hoang Ngan Le , Marios Savvides

A recent trend to recognize facial expressions in the real-world scenario is to deploy attention based convolutional neural networks (CNNs) locally to signify the importance of facial regions and, combine it with global facial features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-17 Darshan Gera , S Balasubramanian

Facial recognition has always been a challeng- ing task for computer vision scientists and experts. Despite complexities arising due to variations in camera parameters, illumination and face orientations, significant progress has been made…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Saumya Kumaar , Abhinandan Dogra , Abrar Majeedi , Hanan Gani , Ravi M. Vishwanath , S N Omkar

The research on recognizing the most discriminative regions provides referential information for weakly supervised object localization with only image-level annotations. However, the most discriminative regions usually conceal the other…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-12 Yukun Zhou , Zailiang Chen , Hailan Shen , Qing Liu , Rongchang Zhao , Yixiong Liang

Event cameras offer unique advantages for facial keypoint alignment under challenging conditions, such as low light and rapid motion, due to their high temporal resolution and robustness to varying illumination. However, existing RGB facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Donghwa Kang , Junho Kim , Dongwoo Kang

Facial Expression Recognition (FER) is a critical task within computer vision with diverse applications across various domains. Addressing the challenge of limited FER datasets, which hampers the generalization capability of expression…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Bach Nguyen-Xuan , Thien Nguyen-Hoang , Thanh-Huy Nguyen , Nhu Tai-Do

Facial expression recognition (FER) is still one challenging research due to the small inter-class discrepancy in the facial expression data. In view of the significance of facial crucial regions for FER, many existing researches utilize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Guanghui Shi , Shasha Mao , Shuiping Gou , Dandan Yan , Licheng Jiao , Lin Xiong