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Kinship verification is an emerging task in computer vision with multiple potential applications. However, there's no large enough kinship dataset to train a representative and robust model, which is a limitation for achieving better…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Jia Luo Peng , Keng Wei Chang , Shang-Hong Lai

Images captured in low-light conditions usually suffer from very low contrast, which increases the difficulty of subsequent computer vision tasks in a great extent. In this paper, a low-light image enhancement model based on convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-08 Liang Shen , Zihan Yue , Fan Feng , Quan Chen , Shihao Liu , Jie Ma

Visual kinship recognition aims to identify blood relatives from facial images. Its practical application-- like in law-enforcement, video surveillance, automatic family album management, and more-- has motivated many researchers to put…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Pengyu Gao , Siyu Xia , Joseph Robinson , Junkang Zhang , Chao Xia , Ming Shao , Yun Fu

As a long-standing problem in computer vision, face detection has attracted much attention in recent decades for its practical applications. With the availability of face detection benchmark WIDER FACE dataset, much of the progresses have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-31 Shifeng Zhang , Rui Zhu , Xiaobo Wang , Hailin Shi , Tianyu Fu , Shuo Wang , Tao Mei , Stan Z. Li

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

Computational facial models that capture properties of facial cues related to aging and kinship increasingly attract the attention of the research community, enabling the development of reliable methods for age progression, age estimation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Markos Georgopoulos , Yannis Panagakis , Maja Pantic

In the beginning stage, face verification is done using easy method of geometric algorithm models, but the verification route has now developed into a scientific progress of complicated geometric representation and matching process. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-02-03 V. Karthikeyan , Manjupriya , C. K. Chithra , M. Divya

This paper presents a real-time face recognition system using kinect sensor. The algorithm is implemented on GPU using opencl and significant speed improvements are observed. We use kinect depth image to increase the robustness and reduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-04-09 Narmada Naik , G. N Rathna

Kinship verification aims to find out whether there is a kin relation for a given pair of facial images. Kinship verification databases are born with unbalanced data. For a database with N positive kinship pairs, we naturally obtain N(N-1)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Wanhua Li , Shiwei Wang , Jiwen Lu , Jianjiang Feng , Jie Zhou

Face verification is a problem approached in the literature mainly using nonlinear class-specific subspace learning techniques. While it has been shown that kernel-based Class-Specific Discriminant Analysis is able to provide excellent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-06 Guanqun Cao , Alexandros Iosifidis , Moncef Gabbouj

Super-resolution (SR) and landmark localization of tiny faces are highly correlated tasks. On the one hand, landmark localization could obtain higher accuracy with faces of high-resolution (HR). On the other hand, face SR would benefit from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Yu Yin , Joseph P. Robinson , Yulun Zhang , Yun Fu

The age gap in kinship verification addresses the time difference between the photos of the parent and the child. Moreover, their same-age photos are often unavailable, and face aging models are racially biased, which impacts the likeness…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Ali Nazari , Bardiya Kariminia , Mohsen Ebrahimi Moghaddam

With the development of deep learning, Deep Metric Learning (DML) has achieved great improvements in face recognition. Specifically, the widely used softmax loss in the training process often bring large intra-class variations, and feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-02 Bowen Wu , Huaming Wu , Monica M. Y. Zhang

Face detection has achieved significant progress in recent years. However, high performance face detection still remains a very challenging problem, especially when there exists many tiny faces. In this paper, we present a single-shot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-11 Shifeng Zhang , Cheng Chi , Zhen Lei , Stan Z. Li

Visual kinship verification entails confirming whether or not two individuals in a given pair of images or videos share a hypothesized kin relation. As a generalized face verification task, visual kinship verification is particularly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Xiaoting Wu , Eric Granger , Xiaoyi Feng

Face Recognition has been studied for many decades. As opposed to traditional hand-crafted features such as LBP and HOG, much more sophisticated features can be learned automatically by deep learning methods in a data-driven way. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-07-24 Jingtuo Liu , Yafeng Deng , Tao Bai , Zhengping Wei , Chang Huang

One major challenge in computer vision is to go beyond the modeling of individual objects and to investigate the bi- (one-versus-one) or tri- (one-versus-two) relationship among multiple visual entities, answering such questions as whether…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-07-22 Xiaoqian Qin , Xiaoyang Tan , Songcan Chen

The difficulties of underwater image degradation due to light scattering, absorption, and fog-like particles which lead to low resolution and poor visibility are discussed in this study report. We suggest a sophisticated hybrid strategy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Yugandhar Reddy Gogireddy , Jithendra Reddy Gogireddy

Skin tone recognition and generation play important roles in model fairness, healthcare, and generative AI, yet they remain challenging due to the lack of comprehensive datasets and robust methodologies. Compared to other human image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Haoming Lu

Deep learning applies multiple processing layers to learn representations of data with multiple levels of feature extraction. This emerging technique has reshaped the research landscape of face recognition (FR) since 2014, launched by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Mei Wang , Weihong Deng