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General image super-resolution techniques have difficulties in recovering detailed face structures when applying to low resolution face images. Recent deep learning based methods tailored for face images have achieved improved performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Chaofeng Chen , Dihong Gong , Hao Wang , Zhifeng Li , Kwan-Yee K. Wong

Conventional face super-resolution methods usually assume testing low-resolution (LR) images lie in the same domain as the training ones. Due to different lighting conditions and imaging hardware, domain gaps between training and testing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Peike Li , Xin Yu , Yi Yang

Face Restoration (FR) aims to restore High-Quality (HQ) faces from Low-Quality (LQ) input images, which is a domain-specific image restoration problem in the low-level computer vision area. The early face restoration methods mainly use…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Tao Wang , Kaihao Zhang , Jiankang Deng , Tong Lu , Wei Liu , Stefanos Zafeiriou

Cross-resolution face recognition has become a challenging problem for modern deep face recognition systems. It aims at matching a low-resolution probe image with high-resolution gallery images registered in a database. Existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Yuhang Lu , Touradj Ebrahimi

Face Super-Resolution (SR) is a subfield of the SR domain that specifically targets the reconstruction of face images. The main challenge of face SR is to restore essential facial features without distortion. We propose a novel face SR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-23 Deokyun Kim , Minseon Kim , Gihyun Kwon , Dae-Shik Kim

Surveillance scenarios are prone to several problems since they usually involve low-resolution footage, and there is no control of how far the subjects may be from the camera in the first place. This situation is suitable for the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Angelo G. Menezes

We propose a novel couple mappings method for low resolution face recognition using deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs). The proposed architecture consists of two branches of DCNNs to map the high and low resolution face images into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-21 Erfan Zangeneh , Mohammad Rahmati , Yalda Mohsenzadeh

In face detection, low-resolution faces, such as numerous small faces of a human group in a crowded scene, are common in dense face prediction tasks. They usually contain limited visual clues and make small faces less distinguishable from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Guangtao Wang , Jun Li , Jie Xie , Jianhua Xu , Bo Yang

Super-resolution (SR) aims to enhance the quality of low-resolution images and has been widely applied in medical imaging. We found that the design principles of most existing methods are influenced by SR tasks based on real-world images…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-14 Feiyang Jia , Zhineng Chen , Ziying Song , Lin Liu , Caiyan Jia

Face super-resolution (FSR) is a critical technique for enhancing low-resolution facial images and has significant implications for face-related tasks. However, existing FSR methods are limited by fixed up-sampling scales and sensitivity to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Yi Ting Tsai , Yu Wei Chen , Hong-Han Shuai , Ching-Chun Huang

Deep learning has been successfully applied to the single-image super-resolution (SISR) task with great performance in recent years. However, most convolutional neural network based SR models require heavy computation, which limit their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-05 Chaofeng Wang , Zheng Li , Jun Shi

Face hallucination, which is the task of generating a high-resolution face image from a low-resolution input image, is a well-studied problem that is useful in widespread application areas. Face hallucination is particularly challenging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-28 Oncel Tuzel , Yuichi Taguchi , John R. Hershey

High-resolution representations are essential for position-sensitive vision problems, such as human pose estimation, semantic segmentation, and object detection. Existing state-of-the-art frameworks first encode the input image as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-16 Jingdong Wang , Ke Sun , Tianheng Cheng , Borui Jiang , Chaorui Deng , Yang Zhao , Dong Liu , Yadong Mu , Mingkui Tan , Xinggang Wang , Wenyu Liu , Bin Xiao

Traditional approaches based on finite element analyses have been successfully used to predict the macro-scale behavior of heterogeneous materials (composites, multicomponent alloys, and polycrystals) widely used in industrial applications.…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-11-24 Rajat Arora

Facial Expressions Recognition(FER) on low-resolution images is necessary for applications like group expression recognition in crowd scenarios(station, classroom etc.). Classifying a small size facial image into the right expression…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Wei Jing , Feng Tian , Jizhong Zhang , Kuo-Ming Chao , Zhenxin Hong , Xu Liu

Despite substantial advances, single-image super-resolution (SISR) is always in a dilemma to reconstruct high-quality images with limited information from one input image, especially in realistic scenarios. In this paper, we establish a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Pengxu Wei , Yujing Sun , Xingbei Guo , Chang Liu , Jie Chen , Xiangyang Ji , Liang Lin

In practical application, the performance of recognition network usually decreases when being applied on super-resolution images. In this paper, we propose a feature-based recognition network combined with GAN (FGAN). Our network improves…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Jing Hu , Meiqi Zhang , Rui Zhang

The existing face image super-resolution (FSR) algorithms usually train a specific model for a specific low input resolution for optimal results. By contrast, we explore in this work a unified framework that is trained once and then used to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Qiuyu Peng , Zifei Jiang , Yan Huang , Jingliang Peng

Face super-resolution (FSR) under limited computational budgets remains challenging. Existing methods often treat all facial pixels equally, leading to suboptimal resource allocation and degraded performance. CNNs are sensitive to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Siyu Xu , Wenjie Li , Guangwei Gao , Jian Yang , Guo-Jun Qi , Chia-Wen Lin

Existing face super-resolution (FSR) methods have made significant advancements, but they primarily super-resolve face with limited visual information, original pixel-wise space in particular, commonly overlooking the pluralistic clues,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Chenyang Wang , Wenjie An , Kui Jiang , Xianming Liu , Junjun Jiang