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As a special case of common object removal, image person removal is playing an increasingly important role in social media and criminal investigation domains. Due to the integrity of person area and the complexity of human posture, person…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-30 Yunliang Jiang , Chenyang Gu , Zhenfeng Xue , Xiongtao Zhang , Yong Liu

AI based Face Recognition Systems (FRSs) are now widely distributed and deployed as MLaaS solutions all over the world, moreso since the COVID-19 pandemic for tasks ranging from validating individuals' faces while buying SIM cards to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Siddharth D Jaiswal , Ankit Kr. Verma , Animesh Mukherjee

Photos of faces uploaded online are vulnerable to malicious actors who can scrape facial images from online sources and intrude on personal privacy via unauthorized use of facial recognition models. This paper presents FaceCloak, a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Zachary Yahn , Fatih Ilhan , Tiansheng Huang , Selim Tekin , Sihao Hu , Yichang Xu , Margaret Loper , Ling Liu

A practical face recognition system demands not only high recognition performance, but also the capability of detecting spoofing attacks. While emerging approaches of face anti-spoofing have been proposed in recent years, most of them do…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Xiaoguang Tu , Hengsheng Zhang , Mei Xie , Yao Luo , Yuefei Zhang , Zheng Ma

Face swapping aims to generate swapped images that fuse the identity of source faces and the attributes of target faces. Most existing works address this challenging task through 3D modelling or generation using generative adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Kaiwen Cui , Rongliang Wu , Fangneng Zhan , Shijian Lu

We consider the problem of face swapping in images, where an input identity is transformed into a target identity while preserving pose, facial expression, and lighting. To perform this mapping, we use convolutional neural networks trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-28 Iryna Korshunova , Wenzhe Shi , Joni Dambre , Lucas Theis

Similar to facial beautification in real life, 3D virtual avatars require personalized customization to enhance their visual appeal, yet this area remains insufficiently explored. Although current 3D Gaussian editing methods can be adapted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Yiming Zhong , Xiaolin Zhang , Ligang Liu , Yao Zhao , Yunchao Wei

Benefiting from the significant advancements in text-to-image diffusion models, research in personalized image generation, particularly customized portrait generation, has also made great strides recently. However, existing methods either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Benxiang Zhai , Yifang Xu , Guofeng Zhang , Yang Li , Sidan Du

Detecting deepfakes involving face-swaps presents a significant challenge, particularly in real-world scenarios where anyone can perform face-swapping with freely available tools and apps without any technical knowledge. Existing deepfake…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Sudev Kumar Padhi , Harshit Kumar , Umesh Kashyap , Sk. Subidh Ali

The emergence of generative AI and controllable diffusion has made image-to-image synthesis increasingly practical and efficient. However, when input images exhibit low entropy and sparse, the inherent characteristics of diffusion models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Hao Wang , Xiwen Chen , Ashish Bastola , Jiayou Qin , Abolfazl Razi

We propose an experimental method for measuring bias in face recognition systems. Existing methods to measure bias depend on benchmark datasets that are collected in the wild and annotated for protected (e.g., race, gender) and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Hao Liang , Pietro Perona , Guha Balakrishnan

Accurate 3D face reconstruction from 2D images is an enabling technology with applications in healthcare, security, and creative industries. However, current state-of-the-art methods either rely on supervised training with very limited 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Will Rowan , Patrik Huber , Nick Pears , Andrew Keeling

Face authentication systems require a robust anti-spoofing module as they can be deceived by fabricating spoof images of authorized users. Most recent face anti-spoofing methods rely on optimized architectures and training objectives to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Davide Belli , Debasmit Das , Bence Major , Fatih Porikli

We present a diffusion-based portrait shadow removal approach that can robustly produce high-fidelity results. Unlike previous methods, we cast shadow removal as diffusion-based inpainting. To this end, we first train a shadow-independent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Wanchang Yu , Qing Zhang , Rongjia Zheng , Wei-Shi Zheng

The creation of altered and manipulated faces has become more common due to the improvement of DeepFake generation methods. Simultaneously, we have seen detection models' development for differentiating between a manipulated and original…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-27 Sowmen Das , Selim Seferbekov , Arup Datta , Md. Saiful Islam , Md. Ruhul Amin

Face anti-spoofing techniques based on domain generalization have recently been studied widely. Adversarial learning and meta-learning techniques have been adopted to learn domain-invariant representations. However, prior approaches often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Jingyi Yang , Zitong Yu , Xiuming Ni , Jia He , Hui Li

The success of face recognition (FR) systems has led to serious privacy concerns due to potential unauthorized surveillance and user tracking on social networks. Existing methods for enhancing privacy fail to generate natural face images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Liqin Wang , Qianyue Hu , Wei Lu , Xiangyang Luo

Manipulating human facial images between two domains is an important and interesting problem. Most of the existing methods address this issue by applying two generators or one generator with extra conditional inputs. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-15 X G Tu , Y Luo , H S Zhang , W J Ai , Z Ma , M Xie

Recognizing the same faces with and without masks is important for ensuring consistent identification in security, access control, and public safety. This capability is crucial in scenarios like law enforcement, healthcare, and…

Facial action unit recognition has many applications from market research to psychotherapy and from image captioning to entertainment. Despite its recent progress, deployment of these models has been impeded due to their limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Javier Hernandez , Daniel McDuff , Ognjen , Rudovic , Alberto Fung , Mary Czerwinski