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Synthetic data generation is gaining increasing popularity in different computer vision applications. Existing state-of-the-art face recognition models are trained using large-scale face datasets, which are crawled from the Internet and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Hatef Otroshi Shahreza , Sébastien Marcel

Face is one of the most important things for communication with the world around us. It also forms our identity and expressions. Estimating the face structure is a fundamental task in computer vision with applications in different areas…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-07 Kimia Dinashi , Ramin Toosi , Mohammad Ali Akhaee

Recent deep face recognition models proposed in the literature utilized large-scale public datasets such as MS-Celeb-1M and VGGFace2 for training very deep neural networks, achieving state-of-the-art performance on mainstream benchmarks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Fadi Boutros , Marco Huber , Patrick Siebke , Tim Rieber , Naser Damer

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

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

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

Facial expression datasets remain limited in scale due to the subjectivity of annotations and the labor-intensive nature of data collection. This limitation poses a significant challenge for developing modern deep learning-based facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Xilin He , Cheng Luo , Xiaole Xian , Bing Li , Muhammad Haris Khan , Zongyuan Ge , Weicheng Xie , Siyang Song , Linlin Shen , Bernard Ghanem , Xiangyu Yue

Facial Expression Recognition faces two core challenges. The first is class imbalance in public datasets, which skews the learning process and weakens generalization. The second is related to privacy and data collection constraints, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Ali Azmoudeh , Erdi Sarıtaş , Ömer Yıldırım , Hazım Kemal Ekenel

Cross-domain synthesizing realistic faces to learn deep models has attracted increasing attention for facial expression analysis as it helps to improve the performance of expression recognition accuracy despite having small number of real…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Behzad Bozorgtabar , Mohammad Saeed Rad , Hazim Kemal Ekenel , Jean-Philippe Thiran

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

State-of-the-art face recognition networks are often computationally expensive and cannot be used for mobile applications. Training lightweight face recognition models also requires large identity-labeled datasets. Meanwhile, there are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Hatef Otroshi Shahreza , Anjith George , Sébastien Marcel

In this paper, we provide a synthetic data generator methodology with fully controlled, multifaceted variations based on a new 3D face dataset (3DU-Face). We customized synthetic datasets to address specific types of variations (scale,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Jian Han , Sezer Karaoglu , Hoang-An Le , Theo Gevers

Synthetic data is an increasingly popular tool for training deep learning models, especially in computer vision but also in other areas. In this work, we attempt to provide a comprehensive survey of the various directions in the development…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-26 Sergey I. Nikolenko

Privacy issue is a main concern in developing face recognition techniques. Although synthetic face images can partially mitigate potential legal risks while maintaining effective face recognition (FR) performance, FR models trained by face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Zhonglin Sun , Siyang Song , Ioannis Patras , Georgios Tzimiropoulos

The use of large-scale, web-scraped datasets to train face recognition models has raised significant privacy and bias concerns. Synthetic methods mitigate these concerns and provide scalable and controllable face generation to enable fair…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Michael Yeung , Toya Teramoto , Songtao Wu , Tatsuo Fujiwara , Kenji Suzuki , Tamaki Kojima

Face recognition datasets are often collected by crawling Internet and without individuals' consents, raising ethical and privacy concerns. Generating synthetic datasets for training face recognition models has emerged as a promising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Hatef Otroshi Shahreza , Sébastien Marcel

Longitudinal face recognition in children remains challenging due to rapid and nonlinear facial growth, which causes template drift and increasing verification errors over time. This work investigates whether synthetic face data can act as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Afzal Hossain , Stephanie Schuckers

The increasing reliance on large-scale datasets in machine learning poses significant privacy and ethical challenges, particularly in sensitive domains such as face recognition. Synthetic data generation offers a promising alternative;…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Parsa Rahimi , Damien Teney , Sebastien Marcel

Analysis of faces is one of the core applications of computer vision, with tasks ranging from landmark alignment, head pose estimation, expression recognition, and face recognition among others. However, building reliable methods requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Tadas Baltrusaitis , Erroll Wood , Virginia Estellers , Charlie Hewitt , Sebastian Dziadzio , Marek Kowalski , Matthew Johnson , Thomas J. Cashman , Jamie Shotton