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Human facial data offers valuable potential for tackling classification problems, including face recognition, age estimation, gender identification, emotion analysis, and race classification. However, recent privacy regulations,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Rami Haffar , David Sánchez , Josep Domingo-Ferrer

Bias analysis for synthetic face detection is bound to become a critical topic in the coming years. Although many detection models have been developed and several datasets have been released to reliably identify synthetic content, one…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Asmae Lamsaf , Lucia Cascone , Hugo Proença , João Neves

Facial recognition has always been a challeng- ing task for computer vision scientists and experts. Despite complexities arising due to variations in camera parameters, illumination and face orientations, significant progress has been made…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Saumya Kumaar , Abhinandan Dogra , Abrar Majeedi , Hanan Gani , Ravi M. Vishwanath , S N Omkar

Face recognition models are trained on large-scale datasets, which have privacy and ethical concerns. Lately, the use of synthetic data to complement or replace genuine data for the training of face recognition models has been proposed.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 David Geissbühler , Hatef Otroshi Shahreza , Sébastien Marcel

Face is one of the most important things for communication with the world around us. It also forms our identity and expressions. Estimating the face structure is a fundamental task in computer vision with applications in different areas…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-07 Kimia Dinashi , Ramin Toosi , Mohammad Ali Akhaee

Facial expression datasets remain limited in scale due to the subjectivity of annotations and the labor-intensive nature of data collection. This limitation poses a significant challenge for developing modern deep learning-based facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Xilin He , Cheng Luo , Xiaole Xian , Bing Li , Muhammad Haris Khan , Zongyuan Ge , Weicheng Xie , Siyang Song , Linlin Shen , Bernard Ghanem , Xiangyu Yue

In this paper, we propose a novel face synthesis approach that can generate an arbitrarily large number of synthetic images of both real and synthetic identities. Thus a face image dataset can be expanded in terms of the number of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-26 Sandipan Banerjee , John S. Bernhard , Walter J. Scheirer , Kevin W. Bowyer , Patrick J. Flynn

This paper presents a summary of the Masked Face Recognition Competitions (MFR) held within the 2021 International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB 2021). The competition attracted a total of 10 participating teams with valid…

Face recognition systems have significantly advanced in recent years, driven by the availability of large-scale datasets. However, several issues have recently came up, including privacy concerns that have led to the discontinuation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Pietro Melzi , Christian Rathgeb , Ruben Tolosana , Ruben Vera-Rodriguez , Dominik Lawatsch , Florian Domin , Maxim Schaubert

The use of large-scale, web-scraped datasets to train face recognition models has raised significant privacy and bias concerns. Synthetic methods mitigate these concerns and provide scalable and controllable face generation to enable fair…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Michael Yeung , Toya Teramoto , Songtao Wu , Tatsuo Fujiwara , Kenji Suzuki , Tamaki Kojima

In this paper, we provide a synthetic data generator methodology with fully controlled, multifaceted variations based on a new 3D face dataset (3DU-Face). We customized synthetic datasets to address specific types of variations (scale,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Jian Han , Sezer Karaoglu , Hoang-An Le , Theo Gevers

Face verification has come into increasing focus in various applications including the European Entry/Exit System, which integrates face recognition mechanisms. At the same time, the rapid advancement of biometric authentication requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Haoyu Zhang , Marcel Grimmer , Raghavendra Ramachandra , Kiran Raja , Christoph Busch

Synthetic data is an increasingly popular tool for training deep learning models, especially in computer vision but also in other areas. In this work, we attempt to provide a comprehensive survey of the various directions in the development…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-26 Sergey I. Nikolenko

We introduce a new dataset called SyntheticFur built specifically for machine learning training. The dataset consists of ray traced synthetic fur renders with corresponding rasterized input buffers and simulation data files. We procedurally…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-14 Trung Le , Ryan Poplin , Fred Bertsch , Andeep Singh Toor , Margaret L. Oh

Face recognition applications have grown in parallel with the size of datasets, complexity of deep learning models and computational power. However, while deep learning models evolve to become more capable and computational power keeps…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Pedro C. Neto , Rafael M. Mamede , Carolina Albuquerque , Tiago Gonçalves , Ana F. Sequeira

Over the past five decades, automated face recognition (FR) has progressed from handcrafted geometric and statistical approaches to advanced deep learning architectures that now approach, and in many cases exceed, human performance. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Minchul Kim , Anil Jain , Xiaoming Liu

Over the past years, the main research innovations in face recognition focused on training deep neural networks on large-scale identity-labeled datasets using variations of multi-class classification losses. However, many of these datasets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Fadi Boutros , Marcel Klemt , Meiling Fang , Arjan Kuijper , Naser Damer

Deep learning-based face recognition continues to face challenges due to its reliance on huge datasets obtained from web crawling, which can be costly to gather and raise significant real-world privacy concerns. To address this issue, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Minsoo Kim , Min-Cheol Sagong , Gi Pyo Nam , Junghyun Cho , Ig-Jae Kim

Plastic surgery and disguise variations are two of the most challenging co-variates of face recognition. The state-of-art deep learning models are not sufficiently successful due to the availability of limited training samples. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Saksham Suri , Anush Sankaran , Mayank Vatsa , Richa Singh

In the post-pandemic era, wearing face masks has posed great challenge to the ordinary face recognition. In the previous study, researchers has applied pretrained VGG16, and ResNet50 to extract features on the elaborate curated existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Rui Cai , Xuying Ning , Peter N. Belhumeur