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Human facial skin images contain abundant textural information that can serve as valuable features for attribute classification, such as age, race, and gender. Additionally, facial skin images offer the advantages of easy collection and…

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Many of the commonly used datasets for face recognition development are collected from the internet without proper user consent. Due to the increasing focus on privacy in the social and legal frameworks, the use and distribution of these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Jan Niklas Kolf , Tim Rieber , Jurek Elliesen , Fadi Boutros , Arjan Kuijper , Naser Damer

While deep learning technologies are now capable of generating realistic images confusing humans, the research efforts are turning to the synthesis of images for more concrete and application-specific purposes. Facial image generation based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Yeqi Bai , Tao Ma , Lipo Wang , Zhenjie Zhang

Alongside the growth of generative AI, we are witnessing a surge in the use of synthetic data across all stages of the AI development pipeline. It is now common practice for researchers and practitioners to use one large generative model…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Shivani Kapania , Stephanie Ballard , Alex Kessler , Jennifer Wortman Vaughan

The success of deep learning based face recognition systems has given rise to serious privacy concerns due to their ability to enable unauthorized tracking of users in the digital world. Existing methods for enhancing privacy fail to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Fahad Shamshad , Muzammal Naseer , Karthik Nandakumar

Deep learning-based face recognition (FR) technology exacerbates privacy concerns in photo sharing. In response, the research community developed a suite of anti-FR methods to block identity extraction by unauthorized FR systems. Benefiting…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Tao Wang , Yushu Zhang , Xiangli Xiao , Kun Xu , Lin Yuan , Wenying Wen , Yuming Fang

Over the past years, image generation and manipulation have achieved remarkable progress due to the rapid development of generative AI based on deep learning. Recent studies have devoted significant efforts to address the problem of face…

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Person re-identification (re-ID) plays an important role in applications such as public security and video surveillance. Recently, learning from synthetic data, which benefits from the popularity of synthetic data engine, has achieved…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Suncheng Xiang , Yuzhuo Fu , Guanjie You , Ting Liu

The quality and size of training set have great impact on the results of deep learning-based face related tasks. However, collecting and labeling adequate samples with high quality and balanced distributions still remains a laborious and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-06 Xiang Wang , Kai Wang , Shiguo Lian

Masked Face Recognition (MFR) is an increasingly important area in biometric recognition technologies, especially with the widespread use of masks as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. This development has created new challenges for facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Ali Haitham Abdul Amir , Zainab N. Nemer

Face photo-sketch synthesis aims at generating a facial sketch/photo conditioned on a given photo/sketch. It is of wide applications including digital entertainment and law enforcement. Precisely depicting face photos/sketches remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-10 Jun Yu , Xingxin Xu , Fei Gao , Shengjie Shi , Meng Wang , Dacheng Tao , Qingming Huang

StyleGAN is a state-of-art generative adversarial network architecture that generates random 2D high-quality synthetic facial data samples. In this paper, we recap the StyleGAN architecture and training methodology and present our…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-03-25 Viktor Varkarakis , Shabab Bazrafkan , Peter Corcoran

The possibility of carrying out a meaningful forensics analysis on printed and scanned images plays a major role in many applications. First of all, printed documents are often associated with criminal activities, such as terrorist plans,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Anselmo Ferreira , Ehsan Nowroozi , Mauro Barni

As more and more personal photos are shared and tagged in social media, avoiding privacy risks such as unintended recognition becomes increasingly challenging. We propose a new hybrid approach to obfuscate identities in photos by head…

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This study investigates identity-preserving image synthesis, an intriguing task in image generation that seeks to maintain a subject's identity while adding a personalized, stylistic touch. Traditional methods, such as Textual Inversion and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Yuxuan Yan , Chi Zhang , Rui Wang , Yichao Zhou , Gege Zhang , Pei Cheng , Gang Yu , Bin Fu

The emergence of generative AI models has dramatically expanded the availability and use of synthetic data across scientific, industrial, and policy domains. While these developments open new possibilities for data analysis, they also raise…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-06 Ahmad Abdel-Azim , Ruoyu Wang , Xihong Lin

Generative AI technologies are gaining unprecedented popularity, causing a mix of excitement and apprehension through their remarkable capabilities. In this paper, we study the challenges associated with deploying synthetic data, a subfield…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Lauren Arthur , Jason Costello , Jonathan Hardy , Will O'Brien , James Rea , Gareth Rees , Georgi Ganev

Recently, significant progress has been made in face presentation attack detection (PAD), which aims to secure face recognition systems against presentation attacks, owing to the availability of several face PAD datasets. However, all…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Meiling Fang , Marco Huber , Naser Damer

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

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