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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

Identity-preserving face synthesis aims to generate synthetic face images of virtual subjects that can substitute real-world data for training face recognition models. While prior arts strive to create images with consistent identities and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Yuxi Mi , Zhizhou Zhong , Yuge Huang , Qiuyang Yuan , Xuan Zhao , Jianqing Xu , Shouhong Ding , ShaoMing Wang , Rizen Guo , Shuigeng Zhou

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

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

Deep learning-based face recognition continues to face challenges due to its reliance on huge datasets obtained from web crawling, which can be costly to gather and raise significant real-world privacy concerns. To address this issue, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Minsoo Kim , Min-Cheol Sagong , Gi Pyo Nam , Junghyun Cho , Ig-Jae Kim

Recent advances in generative modeling have enabled the generation of high-quality synthetic data that is applicable in a variety of domains, including face recognition. Here, state-of-the-art generative models typically rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Darian Tomašević , Fadi Boutros , Chenhao Lin , Naser Damer , Vitomir Štruc , Peter Peer

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

Recent advances in deep learning have significantly increased the performance of face recognition systems. The performance and reliability of these models depend heavily on the amount and quality of the training data. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-19 Adam Kortylewski , Andreas Schneider , Thomas Gerig , Bernhard Egger , Andreas Morel-Forster , Thomas Vetter

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 scarcity of accessible, compliant, and ethically sourced data presents a considerable challenge to the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) in sensitive fields like healthcare, finance, and biomedical research. Furthermore, access…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Kumar Kshitij Patel , Weitong Zhang , Lingxiao Wang

Research in face recognition has seen tremendous growth over the past couple of decades. Beginning from algorithms capable of performing recognition in constrained environments, the current face recognition systems achieve very high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-22 Maneet Singh , Richa Singh , Mayank Vatsa , Nalini Ratha , Rama Chellappa

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…

Face verification is a significant component of identity authentication in various applications including online banking and secure access to personal devices. The majority of the existing face image datasets often suffer from notable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Georgia Baltsou , Ioannis Sarridis , Christos Koutlis , Symeon Papadopoulos

Privacy protection has become a top priority as the proliferation of AI techniques has led to widespread collection and misuse of personal data. Anonymization and visual identity information hiding are two important facial privacy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Xiao He , Mingrui Zhu , Dongxin Chen , Nannan Wang , Xinbo Gao

Suspect face generation remains a technical challenge in crime investigations. Traditional sketch-drawing workflows suffer from low efficiency and quality, while diffusion-based approaches still face intrinsic limitations on conditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Weichen Liu , Yixin Yang , Changsheng Chen , Alex Kot

Synthetic data is emerging as a substitute for authentic data to solve ethical and legal challenges in handling authentic face data. The current models can create real-looking face images of people who do not exist. However, it is a known…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Marco Huber , Anh Thi Luu , Fadi Boutros , Arjan Kuijper , Naser Damer

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

Recent advances in deep face recognition have spurred a growing demand for large, diverse, and manually annotated face datasets. Acquiring authentic, high-quality data for face recognition has proven to be a challenge, primarily due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Andrea Atzori , Fadi Boutros , Naser Damer , Gianni Fenu , Mirko Marras

We introduce GANDiff FR, the first synthetic framework that precisely controls demographic and environmental factors to measure, explain, and reduce bias with reproducible rigor. GANDiff FR unifies StyleGAN3-based identity-preserving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Md Asgor Hossain Reaj , Rajan Das Gupta , Md Yeasin Rahat , Nafiz Fahad , Md Jawadul Hasan , Tze Hui Liew