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Face synthesis has been a fascinating yet challenging problem in computer vision and machine learning. Its main research effort is to design algorithms to generate photo-realistic face images via given semantic domain. It has been a crucial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-16 Zhihe Lu , Zhihang Li , Jie Cao , Ran He , Zhenan Sun

Recent advances in deep learning have significantly increased the performance of face recognition systems. The performance and reliability of these models depend heavily on the amount and quality of the training data. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-19 Adam Kortylewski , Andreas Schneider , Thomas Gerig , Bernhard Egger , Andreas Morel-Forster , Thomas Vetter

The accuracy of face recognition systems has improved significantly in the past few years, thanks to the large amount of data collected and advancements in neural network architectures. However, these large-scale datasets are often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Anjith George , Sebastien Marcel

Recent advances in deep learning methods have increased the performance of face detection and recognition systems. The accuracy of these models relies on the range of variation provided in the training data. Creating a dataset that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Shubhajit Basak , Hossein Javidnia , Faisal Khan , Rachel McDonnell , Michael Schukat

The ability to accurately recognize an individual's face with respect to human aging factor holds significant importance for various private as well as government sectors such as customs and public security bureaus, passport office, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Wang Yao , Muhammad Ali Farooq , Joseph Lemley , Peter Corcoran

As Artificial Intelligence applications expand, the evaluation of models faces heightened scrutiny. Ensuring public readiness requires evaluation datasets, which differ from training data by being disjoint and ethically sourced in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Kassi Nzalasse , Rishav Raj , Eli Laird , Corey Clark

Synthetically generated face images have shown to be indistinguishable from real images by humans and as such can lead to a lack of trust in digital content as they can, for instance, be used to spread misinformation. Therefore, the need to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-31 M. Ibsen , C. Rathgeb , S. Marcel , C. Busch

The performance of supervised deep learning algorithms depends significantly on the scale, quality and diversity of the data used for their training. Collecting and manually annotating large amount of data can be both time-consuming and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-02 C. Symeonidis , P. Nousi , P. Tosidis , K. Tsampazis , N. Passalis , A. Tefas , N. Nikolaidis

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

The growing demand for diverse and high-quality facial datasets for training and testing biometric systems is challenged by privacy regulations, data scarcity, and ethical concerns. Synthetic facial images offer a potential solution, yet…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Ananya Kadali , Sunnie Jehan-Morrison , Orasiki Wellington , Barney Evans , Precious Durojaiye , Richard Guest

Synthetic data has emerged as a promising alternative for training face recognition (FR) models, offering advantages in scalability, privacy compliance, and potential for bias mitigation. However, critical questions remain on whether both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Pavel Korshunov , Ketan Kotwal , Christophe Ecabert , Vidit Vidit , Amir Mohammadi , Sebastien Marcel

We present a method for synthesizing naturally looking images of multiple people interacting in a specific scenario. These images benefit from the advantages of synthetic data: being fully controllable and fully annotated with any type of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-04 Igor Kviatkovsky , Nadav Bhonker , Gerard Medioni

Face recognition and verification are two computer vision tasks whose performances have advanced with the introduction of deep representations. However, ethical, legal, and technical challenges due to the sensitive nature of face data and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Alexandre Fournier-Montgieux , Michael Soumm , Adrian Popescu , Bertrand Luvison , Hervé Le Borgne

Facial analysis models are increasingly used in applications that have serious impacts on people's lives, ranging from authentication to surveillance tracking. It is therefore critical to develop techniques that can reveal unintended biases…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Remi Denton , Ben Hutchinson , Margaret Mitchell , Timnit Gebru , Andrew Zaldivar

With the recent success of deep neural networks, remarkable progress has been achieved on face recognition. However, collecting large-scale real-world training data for face recognition has turned out to be challenging, especially due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Haibo Qiu , Baosheng Yu , Dihong Gong , Zhifeng Li , Wei Liu , Dacheng Tao

Advances in image generation enable hyper-realistic synthetic faces but also pose risks, thus making synthetic face detection crucial. Previous research focuses on the general differences between generated images and real images, often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Qingchao Jiang , Zhishuo Xu , Zhiying Zhu , Ning Chen , Haoyue Wang , Zhongjie Ba

Over the recent years, the advancements in deep face recognition have fueled an increasing demand for large and diverse datasets. Nevertheless, the authentic data acquired to create those datasets is typically sourced from the web, which,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Andrea Atzori , Pietro Cosseddu , Gianni Fenu , Mirko Marras

Generative A.I. models have emerged as versatile tools across diverse industries, with applications in privacy-preserving data sharing, computational art, personalization of products and services, and immersive entertainment. Here, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Jordan W. Suchow , Necdet Gürkan

Counterfactual explanations provide a potentially significant solution to the Explainable AI (XAI) problem, but good, native counterfactuals have been shown to rarely occur in most datasets. Hence, the most popular methods generate…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-01-25 Barry Smyth , Mark T Keane

Synthetic data, which is artificially generated and intelligently mimicking or supplementing the real-world data, is increasingly used. The proliferation of AI agents and the adoption of synthetic data create a synthetic mirror that…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Marcelle Momha