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Coronavirus, or COVID-19, is a hazardous disease that has endangered the health of many people around the world by directly affecting the lungs. COVID-19 is a medium-sized, coated virus with a single-stranded RNA, and also has one of the…

Global pandemic due to the spread of COVID-19 has post challenges in a new dimension on facial recognition, where people start to wear masks. Under such condition, the authors consider utilizing machine learning in image inpainting to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Zhengyang Han , Zehao Jiang , Yuan Ju

Large scale face recognition is challenging especially when the computational budget is limited. Given a \textit{flops} upper bound, the key is to find the optimal neural network architecture and optimization method. In this article, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Yu Liu , Guanglu Song , Manyuan Zhang , Jihao Liu , Yucong Zhou , Junjie Yan

Recognizing wild faces is extremely hard as they appear with all kinds of variations. Traditional methods either train with specifically annotated variation data from target domains, or by introducing unlabeled target variation data to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-28 Yichun Shi , Xiang Yu , Kihyuk Sohn , Manmohan Chandraker , Anil K. Jain

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

What is the best way to learn a universal face representation? Recent work on Deep Learning in the area of face analysis has focused on supervised learning for specific tasks of interest (e.g. face recognition, facial landmark localization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Adrian Bulat , Shiyang Cheng , Jing Yang , Andrew Garbett , Enrique Sanchez , Georgios Tzimiropoulos

Erratum to the paper (Zhang et al., 2025): corrections to Table IV and the data in Page 3, Section A. In the post-pandemic era, a high proportion of civil aviation passengers wear masks during security checks, posing significant challenges…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Bo Zhang , Ming Zhang , Kun Wu , Lei Bian , Yi Lin

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

AI based Face Recognition Systems (FRSs) are now widely distributed and deployed as MLaaS solutions all over the world, moreso since the COVID-19 pandemic for tasks ranging from validating individuals' faces while buying SIM cards to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Siddharth D Jaiswal , Ankit Kr. Verma , Animesh Mukherjee

As Covid-19 has been constantly getting mutated and in three or four months a new variant gets introduced to us and it comes with more deadly problems. The things that prevent us from getting Covid is getting vaccinated and wearing a face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Abdullah Ahmad Khan , Mohd. Belal , GhufranUllah

Though tremendous strides have been made in object recognition, one of the remaining open challenges is detecting small objects. We explore three aspects of the problem in the context of finding small faces: the role of scale invariance,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-18 Peiyun Hu , Deva Ramanan

In December 2019, a novel coronavirus (COVID-19) spread so quickly around the world that many countries had to set mandatory face mask rules in public areas to reduce the transmission of the virus. To monitor public adherence, researchers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Alperen Kantarcı , Ferda Ofli , Muhammad Imran , Hazım Kemal Ekenel

Although face recognition systems have achieved impressive performance in recent years, the low-resolution face recognition (LRFR) task remains challenging, especially when the LR faces are captured under non-ideal conditions, as is common…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-01 Pei Li , Loreto Prieto , Domingo Mery , Patrick Flynn

The aim of the work is to use deep neural network models for solving the problem of image recognition. These days, every human being is threatened by a harmful coronavirus disease, also called COVID-19 disease. The spread of coronavirus…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Samir S. Yadav , Jasminder Kaur Sandhu , Mininath R. Bendre , Pratap S. Vikhe , Amandeep Kaur

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

Despite significant advances in Deep Face Recognition (DFR) systems, introducing new DFRs under specific constraints such as varying pose still remains a big challenge. Most particularly, due to the 3D nature of a human head, facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-23 Sara Shahsavarani , Morteza Analoui , Reza Shoja Ghiass

The world is going through one of the most dangerous pandemics of all time with the rapid spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). According to the World Health Organisation, the most effective way to thwart the transmission of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-04 Puranjay Mohan , Aditya Jyoti Paul , Abhay Chirania

The introduction of face masks during COVID-19 presents a potential challenge for human face perception and recognition. Face masks possibly hinder the holistic processing of faces leading to difficulty in facial recognition. Our present…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2023-03-13 Srijita Karmakar , Koel Das

The great challenge for the humanity of the year 2020 is the fight against COVID-19. The whole world is making a huge effort to find an effective vaccine with purpose to protect people not yet infected. The alternative solution remains…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-03 Mario Manzo , Simone Pellino

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