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Face recognition systems are usually faced with unseen domains in real-world applications and show unsatisfactory performance due to their poor generalization. For example, a well-trained model on webface data cannot deal with the ID vs.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-26 Jianzhu Guo , Xiangyu Zhu , Chenxu Zhao , Dong Cao , Zhen Lei , Stan Z. Li

3D reconstruction methods such as Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) excel at rendering photorealistic novel views of complex scenes. However, recovering a high-quality NeRF typically requires tens to hundreds of input images, resulting in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Rundi Wu , Ben Mildenhall , Philipp Henzler , Keunhong Park , Ruiqi Gao , Daniel Watson , Pratul P. Srinivasan , Dor Verbin , Jonathan T. Barron , Ben Poole , Aleksander Holynski

Recent studies on deepfake detection have achieved promising results when training and testing faces are from the same dataset. However, their results severely degrade when confronted with forged samples that the model has not yet seen…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Tiewen Chen , Shanmin Yang , Shu Hu , Zhenghan Fang , Ying Fu , Xi Wu , Xin Wang

Person re-identification (Re-ID) in real-world scenarios usually suffers from various degradation factors, e.g., low-resolution, weak illumination, blurring and adverse weather. On the one hand, these degradations lead to severe…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-13 Yukun Huang , Zheng-Jun Zha , Xueyang Fu , Richang Hong , Liang Li

Image restoration is a classic low-level problem aimed at recovering high-quality images from low-quality images with various degradations such as blur, noise, rain, haze, etc. However, due to the inherent complexity and non-uniqueness of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Yuhong Zhang , Hengsheng Zhang , Xinning Chai , Zhengxue Cheng , Rong Xie , Li Song , Wenjun Zhang

Face recognition systems are increasingly vulnerable to morphing attacks, where a composite image is crafted to match multiple identities, enabling unauthorized access and identity fraud. Existing detection methods identify morphed images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Nitish Shukla , Arun Ross

While significant progress has been achieved in multimodal facial generation using semantic masks and textual descriptions, conventional feature fusion approaches often fail to enable effective cross-modal interactions, thereby leading to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Yushe Cao , Dianxi Shi , Xing Fu , Xuechao Zou , Haikuo Peng , Xueqi Li , Chun Yu , Junliang Xing

Blind face restoration usually synthesizes degraded low-quality data with a pre-defined degradation model for training, while more complex cases could happen in the real world. This gap between the assumed and actual degradation hurts the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Zhixin Wang , Xiaoyun Zhang , Ziying Zhang , Huangjie Zheng , Mingyuan Zhou , Ya Zhang , Yanfeng Wang

Diffusion models have attained remarkable success in the domains of image generation and editing. It is widely recognized that employing larger inversion and denoising steps in diffusion model leads to improved image reconstruction quality.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Chen Hou , Guoqiang Wei , Zhibo Chen

Magnetic Resonance Fingerprinting (MRF) is a time-efficient approach to quantitative MRI, enabling the mapping of multiple tissue properties from a single, accelerated scan. However, achieving accurate reconstructions remains challenging,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-19 Perla Mayo , Carolin M. Pirkl , Alin Achim , Bjoern H. Menze , Mohammad Golbabaee

In Heterogeneous Face Recognition (HFR), the objective is to match faces across two different domains such as visible and thermal. Large domain discrepancy makes HFR a difficult problem. Recent methods attempting to fill the gap via…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Yiqun Mei , Pengfei Guo , Vishal M. Patel

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

Current subject-driven image generation methods encounter significant challenges in person-centric image generation. The reason is that they learn the semantic scene and person generation by fine-tuning a common pre-trained diffusion, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Yibin Wang , Weizhong Zhang , Jianwei Zheng , Cheng Jin

Face swapping aims to seamlessly transfer a source facial identity onto a target while preserving target attributes such as pose and expression. Diffusion models, known for their superior generative capabilities, have recently shown promise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Dailan He , Xiahong Wang , Shulun Wang , Guanglu Song , Bingqi Ma , Hao Shao , Yu Liu , Hongsheng Li

Image restoration (IR) has been an indispensable and challenging task in the low-level vision field, which strives to improve the subjective quality of images distorted by various forms of degradation. Recently, the diffusion model has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Xin Li , Yulin Ren , Xin Jin , Cuiling Lan , Xingrui Wang , Wenjun Zeng , Xinchao Wang , Zhibo Chen

High-dimensional images, known for their rich semantic information, are widely applied in remote sensing and other fields. The spatial information in these images reflects the object's texture features, while the spectral information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Daixun Li , Weiying Xie , Jiaqing Zhang , Yunsong Li

A face morph is created by combining two face images corresponding to two identities to produce a composite that successfully matches both the constituent identities. Reference-free (RF) demorphing reverses this process using only the morph…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Nitish Shukla , Arun Ross

In medical imaging, the diffusion models have shown great potential for synthetic image generation tasks. However, these approaches often lack the interpretable connections between the generated and real images and can create anatomically…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-12 Jian-Qing Zheng , Yuanhan Mo , Yang Sun , Jiahua Li , Fuping Wu , Ziyang Wang , Tonia Vincent , Bartłomiej W. Papież

Face anti-spoofing (FAS) plays a vital role in preventing face recognition (FR) systems from presentation attacks. Nowadays, FAS systems face the challenge of domain shift, impacting the generalization performance of existing FAS methods.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Xinxu Ge , Xin Liu , Zitong Yu , Jingang Shi , Chun Qi , Jie Li , Heikki Kälviäinen

With the rise in manipulated media, deepfake detection has become an imperative task for preserving the authenticity of digital content. In this paper, we present a novel multi-modal audio-video framework designed to concurrently process…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Aaditya Kharel , Manas Paranjape , Aniket Bera