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Synthetic face recognition (SFR) aims to generate synthetic face datasets that mimic the distribution of real face data, which allows for training face recognition models in a privacy-preserving manner. Despite the remarkable potential of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Shen Li , Jianqing Xu , Jiaying Wu , Miao Xiong , Ailin Deng , Jiazhen Ji , Yuge Huang , Wenjie Feng , Shouhong Ding , Bryan Hooi

Due to the pervasiveness of image capturing devices in every-day life, images of individuals are routinely captured. Although this has enabled many benefits, it also infringes on personal privacy. A promising direction in research on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-02-23 William Croft , Jörg-Rüdiger Sack , Wei Shi

AI-based image generation has continued to rapidly improve, producing increasingly more realistic images with fewer obvious visual flaws. AI-generated images are being used to create fake online profiles which in turn are being used for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Gonzalo J. Aniano Porcile , Jack Gindi , Shivansh Mundra , James R. Verbus , Hany Farid

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

Recognizing pain in video is crucial for improving patient-computer interaction systems, yet traditional data collection in this domain raises significant ethical and logistical challenges. This study introduces a novel approach that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Jonas Nasimzada , Jens Kleesiek , Ken Herrmann , Alina Roitberg , Constantin Seibold

Deepfakes, leveraging advanced AIGC (Artificial Intelligence-Generated Content) techniques, create hyper-realistic synthetic images and videos of human faces, posing a significant threat to the authenticity of social media. While this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Junyu Shi , Minghui Li , Junguo Zuo , Zhifei Yu , Yipeng Lin , Shengshan Hu , Ziqi Zhou , Yechao Zhang , Wei Wan , Yinzhe Xu , Leo Yu Zhang

Computer vision is a field of artificial intelligence that trains computers to interpret the visual world in a way similar to that of humans. Due to the rapid advancements in technology and the increasing availability of sufficiently large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-30 Leonardo Ramos , Bernardo Morales

Face recognition technology has been deployed in various real-life applications. The most sophisticated deep learning-based face recognition systems rely on training millions of face images through complex deep neural networks to achieve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Dong Han , Yong Li , Joachim Denzler

Face aging is the process of converting an individual's appearance to a younger or older version of themselves. Existing face aging techniques have been limited to 2D settings, which often weaken their applications as there is a growing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Junaid Wahid , Fangneng Zhan , Pramod Rao , Christian Theobalt

Deep generative models have recently presented impressive results in generating realistic face images of random synthetic identities. To generate multiple samples of a certain synthetic identity, previous works proposed to disentangle the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Fadi Boutros , Marcel Klemt , Meiling Fang , Arjan Kuijper , Naser Damer

The performance of models is intricately linked to the abundance of training data. In Visible-Infrared person Re-IDentification (VI-ReID) tasks, collecting and annotating large-scale images of each individual under various cameras and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Wenbo Dai , Lijing Lu , Zhihang Li

In the realm of multimedia data analysis, the extensive use of image datasets has escalated concerns over privacy protection within such data. Current research predominantly focuses on privacy protection either in data sharing or upon the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Huaxi Huang , Xin Yuan , Qiyu Liao , Dadong Wang , Tongliang Liu

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

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

As more and more personal photos are shared and tagged in social media, avoiding privacy risks such as unintended recognition becomes increasingly challenging. We propose a new hybrid approach to obfuscate identities in photos by head…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-25 Qianru Sun , Ayush Tewari , Weipeng Xu , Mario Fritz , Christian Theobalt , Bernt Schiele

Accurate representations of 3D faces are of paramount importance in various computer vision and graphics applications. However, the challenges persist due to the limitations imposed by data discretization and model linearity, which hinder…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Mingwu Zheng , Haiyu Zhang , Hongyu Yang , Liming Chen , Di Huang

Due to the development of facial manipulation techniques in recent years deepfake detection in video stream became an important problem for face biometrics, brand monitoring or online video conferencing solutions. In case of a biometric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Kirill Vyshegorodtsev , Dmitry Kudiyarov , Alexander Balashov , Alexander Kuzmin

The large domain discrepancy between faces captured in polarimetric (or conventional) thermal and visible domain makes cross-domain face recognition quite a challenging problem for both human-examiners and computer vision algorithms.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-10 He Zhang , Vishal M. Patel , Benjamin S. Riggan , Shuowen Hu

Face recognition performance based on deep learning heavily relies on large-scale training data, which is often difficult to acquire in practical applications. To address this challenge, this paper proposes a GAN-based data augmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Zhongwen Li , Zongwei Li , Xiaoqi Li

Face obfuscation (blurring, mosaicing, etc.) has been shown to be effective for privacy protection; nevertheless, object recognition research typically assumes access to complete, unobfuscated images. In this paper, we explore the effects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Kaiyu Yang , Jacqueline Yau , Li Fei-Fei , Jia Deng , Olga Russakovsky