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Cycle consistency is widely used for face editing. However, we observe that the generator tends to find a tricky way to hide information from the original image to satisfy the constraint of cycle consistency, making it impossible to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Yue Gao , Fangyun Wei , Jianmin Bao , Shuyang Gu , Dong Chen , Fang Wen , Zhouhui Lian

Nowadays advanced image editing tools and technical skills produce tampered images more realistically, which can easily evade image forensic systems and make authenticity verification of images more difficult. To tackle this challenging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Jing Hao , Zhixin Zhang , Shicai Yang , Di Xie , Shiliang Pu

This paper focuses on the problem of generating human face pictures from specific attributes. The existing CNN-based face generation models, however, either ignore the identity of the generated face or fail to preserve the identity of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-24 Mu Li , Wangmeng Zuo , David Zhang

We present a simple method to reconstruct a high-resolution video from a face-video, where the identity of a person is obscured by pixelization. This concealment method is popular because the viewer can still perceive a human face figure…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-30 Maayan Shuvi , Noa Fish , Kfir Aberman , Ariel Shamir , Daniel Cohen-Or

The proliferation of facial recognition (FR) systems has raised privacy concerns in the digital realm, as malicious uses of FR models pose a significant threat. Traditional countermeasures, such as makeup style transfer, have suffered from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Binh M. Le , Simon S. Woo

This paper presented a face detection system using Radial Basis Function Neural Networks With Fixed Spread Value. Face detection is the first step in face recognition system. The purpose is to localize and extract the face region from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-10-09 K. A. A. Aziz , S. S. Abdullah

Although diffusion models are rising as a powerful solution for blind face restoration, they are criticized for two problems: 1) slow training and inference speed, and 2) failure in preserving identity and recovering fine-grained facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Yunqi Miao , Jiankang Deng , Jungong Han

Blind facial image restoration is highly challenging due to unknown complex degradations and the sensitivity of humans to faces. Although existing methods introduce auxiliary information from generative priors or high-quality reference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Zhicun Yin , Junjie Chen , Ming Liu , Zhixin Wang , Fan Li , Renjing Pei , Xiaoming Li , Rynson W. H. Lau , Wangmeng Zuo

Accurate and fast recognition of forgeries is an issue of great importance in the fields of artificial intelligence, image processing and object detection. Recognition of forgeries of facial imagery is the process of classifying and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Günel Jabbarlı , Murat Kurt

Diffusion models have demonstrated impressive performance in face restoration. Yet, their multi-step inference process remains computationally intensive, limiting their applicability in real-world scenarios. Moreover, existing methods often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Jingkai Wang , Jue Gong , Lin Zhang , Zheng Chen , Xing Liu , Hong Gu , Yutong Liu , Yulun Zhang , Xiaokang Yang

We employ the face recognition technology developed in house at face.com to a well accepted benchmark and show that without any tuning we are able to considerably surpass state of the art results. Much of the improvement is concentrated in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Yaniv Taigman , Lior Wolf

Recent advances in AI technology have made the forgery of digital images and videos easier, and it has become significantly more difficult to identify such forgeries. These forgeries, if disseminated with malicious intent, can negatively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Chia-Mu Yu , Ching-Tang Chang , Yen-Wu Ti

There are many facts affecting human face recognition, such as pose, occlusion, illumination, age, etc. First and foremost are large pose and occlusion problems, which can even result in more than 10% performance degradation. Pose-invariant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-27 Qingyan Duan , Lei Zhang

Inverting visual representations within deep neural networks (DNNs) presents a challenging and important problem in the field of security and privacy for deep learning. The main goal is to invert the features of an unidentified target image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Sai Qian Zhang , Ziyun Li , Chuan Guo , Saeed Mahloujifar , Deeksha Dangwal , Edward Suh , Barbara De Salvo , Chiao Liu

The Forward-Forward (FF) algorithm presents a compelling, bio-inspired alternative to backpropagation. However, while efficient in training, it has a computationally prohibitive inference process that requires a separate forward pass for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Shalini Sarode , Brian Moser , Joachim Folz , Federico Raue , Tobias Nauen , Stanislav Frolov , Andreas Dengel

Face recognition under extreme head poses is a challenging task. Ideally, a face recognition system should perform well across different head poses, which is known as pose-invariant face recognition. To achieve pose invariance, current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Patrik Mesec , Alan Jović

As Facial Recognition System(FRS) is widely applied in areas such as access control and mobile payments due to its convenience and high accuracy. The security of facial recognition is also highly regarded. The Face anti-spoofing system(FAS)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Qiushi Guo

Face recognition algorithms have demonstrated very high recognition performance, suggesting suitability for real world applications. Despite the enhanced accuracies, robustness of these algorithms against attacks and bias has been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-10 Richa Singh , Akshay Agarwal , Maneet Singh , Shruti Nagpal , Mayank Vatsa

Face detection and recognition has been prevalent with research scholars and diverse approaches have been incorporated till date to serve purpose. The rampant advent of biometric analysis systems, which may be full body scanners, or iris…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-01-31 Smriti Tikoo , Nitin Malik

In this paper, we propose a novel face alignment method that trains deep convolutional network from coarse to fine. It divides given landmarks into principal subset and elaborate subset. We firstly keep a large weight for principal subset…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-02 Zhiwen Shao , Shouhong Ding , Yiru Zhao , Qinchuan Zhang , Lizhuang Ma