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Blind face restoration aims at recovering high-quality face images from those with unknown degradations. Current algorithms mainly introduce priors to complement high-quality details and achieve impressive progress. However, most of these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Zhouxia Wang , Jiawei Zhang , Tianshui Chen , Wenping Wang , Ping Luo

Wearing a face mask is one of the adjustments we had to follow to reduce the spread of the coronavirus. Having our faces covered by masks constantly has driven the need to understand and investigate how this behavior affects the recognition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Mohammed R. Al-Sinan , Aseel F. Haneef , Hamzah Luqman

Dexterous manipulation remains one of the most challenging problems in robotics, requiring coherent control of high-DoF hands and arms under complex, contact-rich dynamics. A major barrier is embodiment variability: different dexterous…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Ke Zhang , Lixin Xu , Chengyi Song , Junzhe Xu , Xiaoyi Lin , Zeyu Jiang , Renjing Xu

In this work, we introduce the Prototypical Transformer (ProtoFormer), a general and unified framework that approaches various motion tasks from a prototype perspective. ProtoFormer seamlessly integrates prototype learning with Transformer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Cheng Han , Yawen Lu , Guohao Sun , James C. Liang , Zhiwen Cao , Qifan Wang , Qiang Guan , Sohail A. Dianat , Raghuveer M. Rao , Tong Geng , Zhiqiang Tao , Dongfang Liu

We present a mask-piloted Transformer which improves masked-attention in Mask2Former for image segmentation. The improvement is based on our observation that Mask2Former suffers from inconsistent mask predictions between consecutive decoder…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Hao Zhang , Feng Li , Huaizhe Xu , Shijia Huang , Shilong Liu , Lionel M. Ni , Lei Zhang

This paper presents a Refinement Pyramid Transformer (RePFormer) for robust facial landmark detection. Most facial landmark detectors focus on learning representative image features. However, these CNN-based feature representations are not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-11 Jinpeng Li , Haibo Jin , Shengcai Liao , Ling Shao , Pheng-Ann Heng

Understanding user intent is essential for situational and context-aware decision-making. Motivated by a real-world scenario, this work addresses intent predictions of smart device users in the vicinity of vehicles by modeling sequential…

Vision Transformers (ViT)s have recently become popular due to their outstanding modeling capabilities, in particular for capturing long-range information, and scalability to dataset and model sizes which has led to state-of-the-art…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-06 Ali Hatamizadeh , Ziyue Xu , Dong Yang , Wenqi Li , Holger Roth , Daguang Xu

Recent advances in vision transformers (ViTs) have achieved great performance in visual recognition tasks. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) exploit spatial inductive bias to learn visual representations, but these networks are spatially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Youpeng Zhao , Huadong Tang , Yingying Jiang , Yong A , Qiang Wu

We present User-predictable Face Editing (UP-FacE) -- a novel method for predictable face shape editing. In stark contrast to existing methods for face editing using trial and error, edits with UP-FacE are predictable by the human user.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Florian Strohm , Mihai Bâce , Andreas Bulling

Feature pyramids have been widely adopted in convolutional neural networks and transformers for tasks in medical image segmentation. However, existing models generally focus on the Encoder-side Transformer for feature extraction. We further…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Hongyi Cai , Mohammad Mahdinur Rahman , Wenzhen Dong , Jingyu Wu

We present a general-purpose framework for image modelling and vision tasks based on probabilistic frame prediction. Our approach unifies a broad range of tasks, from image segmentation, to novel view synthesis and video interpolation. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Charlie Nash , João Carreira , Jacob Walker , Iain Barr , Andrew Jaegle , Mateusz Malinowski , Peter Battaglia

In this paper, we present a hybrid X-shaped vision Transformer, named Xformer, which performs notably on image denoising tasks. We explore strengthening the global representation of tokens from different scopes. In detail, we adopt two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Jiale Zhang , Yulun Zhang , Jinjin Gu , Jiahua Dong , Linghe Kong , Xiaokang Yang

Image segmentation is about grouping pixels with different semantics, e.g., category or instance membership, where each choice of semantics defines a task. While only the semantics of each task differ, current research focuses on designing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Bowen Cheng , Ishan Misra , Alexander G. Schwing , Alexander Kirillov , Rohit Girdhar

Due to the high similarity between camouflaged instances and the background, the recently proposed camouflaged instance segmentation (CIS) faces challenges in accurate localization and instance segmentation. To this end, inspired by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Bo Dong , Jialun Pei , Rongrong Gao , Tian-Zhu Xiang , Shuo Wang , Huan Xiong

In this paper, we share our experience in designing a convolutional network-based face detector that could handle faces of an extremely wide range of scales. We show that faces with different scales can be modeled through a specialized set…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-12 Shuo Yang , Yuanjun Xiong , Chen Change Loy , Xiaoou Tang

Face detection and alignment in unconstrained environment is always deployed on edge devices which have limited memory storage and low computing power. This paper proposes a one-stage method named CenterFace to simultaneously predict facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Yuanyuan Xu , Wan Yan , Haixin Sun , Genke Yang , Jiliang Luo

Transformers have shown significant effectiveness for various vision tasks including both high-level vision and low-level vision. Recently, masked autoencoders (MAE) for feature pre-training have further unleashed the potential of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Huiyu Duan , Wei Shen , Xiongkuo Min , Danyang Tu , Long Teng , Jia Wang , Guangtao Zhai

Algorithms for the action segmentation task typically use temporal models to predict what action is occurring at each frame for a minute-long daily activity. Recent studies have shown the potential of Transformer in modeling the relations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Fangqiu Yi , Hongyu Wen , Tingting Jiang

Skeleton-based human action recognition leverages sequences of human joint coordinates to identify actions performed in videos. Owing to the intrinsic spatiotemporal structure of skeleton data, Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Yusen Peng , Alper Yilmaz