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Low-resolution face recognition (LRFR) has received increasing attention over the past few years. Its applications lie widely in the real-world environment when high-resolution or high-quality images are hard to capture. One of the biggest…

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In an era where the global population is aging significantly, cognitive impairments among the elderly have become a major health concern. The need for effective assistive technologies is clear, and facial recognition systems are emerging as…

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The small amount of training data for many state-of-the-art deep learning-based Face Recognition (FR) systems causes a marked deterioration in their performance. Although a considerable amount of research has addressed this issue by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Soroush Hashemifar , Abdolreza Marefat , Javad Hassannataj Joloudari , Hamid Hassanpour

The performance of face recognition (FR) systems applied in video surveillance has been shown to improve when the design data is augmented through synthetic face generation. This is true, for instance, with pair-wise matchers (e.g., deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-01 Fania Mokhayeri , Kaveh Kamali , Eric Granger

Although generative facial prior and geometric prior have recently demonstrated high-quality results for blind face restoration, producing fine-grained facial details faithful to inputs remains a challenging problem. Motivated by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Yuchao Gu , Xintao Wang , Liangbin Xie , Chao Dong , Gen Li , Ying Shan , Ming-Ming Cheng

Although face recognition (FR) has achieved great success in recent years, it is still challenging to accurately recognize faces in low-quality images due to the obscured facial details. Nevertheless, it is often feasible to make…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Niloufar Alipour Talemi , Hossein Kashiani , Nasser M. Nasrabadi

State-of-the-art face recognition (FR) approaches have shown remarkable results in predicting whether two faces belong to the same identity, yielding accuracies between 92% and 100% depending on the difficulty of the protocol. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-30 Stefan Hörmann , Tianlin Kong , Torben Teepe , Fabian Herzog , Martin Knoche , Gerhard Rigoll

The rapid advancement of generative artificial intelligence has enabled the creation of highly realistic fake facial images, posing serious threats to personal privacy and the integrity of online information. Existing deepfake detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Huanhuan Yuan , Yang Ping , Zhengqin Xu , Junyi Cao , Shuai Jia , Chao Ma

Recognition of low-quality face images remains a challenge due to invisible or deformation in partial facial regions. For low-quality images dominated by missing partial facial regions, local region similarity contributes more to face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Wang Yu , Wei Wei

Advances in face rotation, along with other face-based generative tasks, are more frequent as we advance further in topics of deep learning. Even as impressive milestones are achieved in synthesizing faces, the importance of preserving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Yu Yin , Joseph P. Robinson , Songyao Jiang , Yue Bai , Can Qin , Yun Fu

Blind face restoration from low-quality (LQ) images is a challenging task that requires not only high-fidelity image reconstruction but also the preservation of facial identity. While diffusion models like Stable Diffusion have shown…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Runyi Li , Bin Chen , Jian Zhang , Radu Timofte

Blind face restoration (BFR) aims to recover high-quality facial images from degraded inputs, yet its inherently ill-posed nature leads to ambiguous and uncontrollable solutions. Recent diffusion-based BFR methods improve perceptual quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Chenxin Zhu , Yushun Fang , Lu Liu , Shibo Yin , Xiaohong Liu , Xiaoyun Zhang , Qiang Hu , Guangtao Zhai

Heterogeneous Face Recognition (HFR) aims at matching face images captured across different sensing modalities, such as thermal-to-visible or near-infrared-to-visible, enhancing the usability of face recognition systems in challenging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Anjith George , Sebastien Marcel

Recent years have witnessed the dramatically increased interest in face generation with generative adversarial networks (GANs). A number of successful GAN algorithms have been developed to produce vivid face images towards different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-31 Yu Tian , Zhangkai Ni , Baoliang Chen , Shiqi Wang , Hanli Wang , Sam Kwong

3D face reconstruction (3DFR) algorithms are based on specific assumptions tailored to distinct application scenarios. These assumptions limit their use when acquisition conditions, such as the subject's distance from the camera or the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Simone Maurizio La Cava , Sara Concas , Ruben Tolosana , Roberto Casula , Giulia Orrù , Martin Drahansky , Julian Fierrez , Gian Luca Marcialis

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNNs) and their variants have been widely used in large scale face recognition(FR) recently. Existing methods have achieved good performance on many FR benchmarks. However, most of them suffer from two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Jing Xu , Tszhang Guo , Yong Xu , Zenglin Xu , Kun Bai

It is increasingly easy to automatically swap faces in images and video or morph two faces into one using generative adversarial networks (GANs). The high quality of the resulted deep-morph raises the question of how vulnerable the current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-07 Pavel Korshunov , Sébastien Marcel

As a very common type of video, face videos often appear in movies, talk shows, live broadcasts, and other scenes. Real-world online videos are often plagued by degradations such as blurring and quantization noise, due to the high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Yutong Wang , Jiajie Teng , Jiajiong Cao , Yuming Li , Chenguang Ma , Hongteng Xu , Dixin Luo

3D face recognition offers a robust biometric solution by capturing facial geometry, providing resilience to variations in illumination, pose changes, and presentation attacks. Its strong spoof resistance makes it suitable for high-security…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Hichem Felouat , Hanrui Wang , Isao Echizen

Facial attribute editing plays a crucial role in synthesizing realistic faces with specific characteristics while maintaining realistic appearances. Despite advancements, challenges persist in achieving precise, 3D-aware attribute…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Yu-Kai Huang , Yutong Zheng , Yen-Shuo Su , Anudeepsekhar Bolimera , Han Zhang , Fangyi Chen , Marios Savvides