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In this paper, we address the problem of face aging: generating past or future facial images by incorporating age-related changes to the given face. Previous aging methods rely solely on human facial image datasets and are thus constrained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Xiangyi Chen , Stéphane Lathuilière

Modern surveillance systems increasingly rely on multi-wavelength sensors and deep neural networks to recognize faces in infrared images captured at night. However, most facial recognition models are trained on visible light datasets,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Mingshu Cai , Osamu Yoshie , Yuya Ieiri

In the field of face recognition, a model learns to distinguish millions of face images with fewer dimensional embedding features, and such vast information may not be properly encoded in the conventional model with a single branch. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Yonghyun Kim , Wonpyo Park , Myung-Cheol Roh , Jongju Shin

We propose a novel method to use both audio and a low-resolution image to perform extreme face super-resolution (a 16x increase of the input size). When the resolution of the input image is very low (e.g., 8x8 pixels), the loss of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-03 Givi Meishvili , Simon Jenni , Paolo Favaro

The rapid progress of Deepfake technology has made face swapping highly realistic, raising concerns about the malicious use of fabricated facial content. Existing methods often struggle to generalize to unseen domains due to the diverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Ke Sun , Shen Chen , Taiping Yao , Hong Liu , Xiaoshuai Sun , Shouhong Ding , Rongrong Ji

Automatic face recognition is an area with immense practical potential which includes a wide range of commercial and law enforcement applications. Hence it is unsurprising that it continues to be one of the most active research areas of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-02-03 Reza Shoja Ghiass , Ognjen Arandjelovic , Hakim Bendada , Xavier Maldague

Face recognition presents a challenging problem in the field of image analysis and computer vision. The security of information is becoming very significant and difficult. Security cameras are presently common in airports, Offices,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-03-04 Divyarajsinh N. Parmar , Brijesh B. Mehta

Facial Image inpainting aim is to restore the missing or corrupted regions in face images while preserving identity, structural consistency and photorealistic image quality, a task specifically created for photo restoration. Though there…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Abhigyan Bhattacharya , Hiranmoy Roy , Debotosh Bhattacharjee

Face inpainting is important in various applications, such as photo restoration, image editing, and virtual reality. Despite the significant advances in face generative models, ensuring that a person's unique facial identity is maintained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Jianjin Xu , Saman Motamed , Praneetha Vaddamanu , Chen Henry Wu , Christian Haene , Jean-Charles Bazin , Fernando de la Torre

This paper proposes a new approach for face verification, where a pair of images needs to be classified as belonging to the same person or not. This problem is relatively new and not well-explored in the literature. Current methods mostly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-10-01 Dong Zhang , Omar Oreifej , Mubarak Shah

After intensive research, heterogenous face recognition is still a challenging problem. The main difficulties are owing to the complex relationship between heterogenous face image spaces. The heterogeneity is always tightly coupled with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-06-06 Dong Yi , Zhen Lei , Shengcai Liao , Stan Z. Li

In this paper we propose an iterative method to address the face identification problem with block occlusions. Our approach utilizes a robust representation based on two characteristics in order to model contiguous errors (e.g., block…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Michael Iliadis , Haohong Wang , Rafael Molina , Aggelos K. Katsaggelos

With the continuous development of deep learning in the field of image generation models, a large number of vivid forged faces have been generated and spread on the Internet. These high-authenticity artifacts could grow into a threat to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-24 Decheng Liu , Zhan Dang , Chunlei Peng , Yu Zheng , Shuang Li , Nannan Wang , Xinbo Gao

Face recognition is a biometric which is attracting significant research, commercial and government interest, as it provides a discreet, non-intrusive way of detecting, and recognizing individuals, without need for the subject's knowledge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-14 Andrew Jason Shepley

Generative diffusion models can serve as a prior which ensures that solutions of image restoration systems adhere to the manifold of natural images. However, for restoring facial images, a personalized prior is necessary to accurately…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Pradyumna Chari , Sizhuo Ma , Daniil Ostashev , Achuta Kadambi , Gurunandan Krishnan , Jian Wang , Kfir Aberman

The widespread adoption of face recognition has led to increasing privacy concerns, as unauthorized access to face images can expose sensitive personal information. This paper explores face image protection against viewing and recovery…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Yuxi Mi , Zhizhou Zhong , Yuge Huang , Jiazhen Ji , Jianqing Xu , Jun Wang , Shaoming Wang , Shouhong Ding , Shuigeng Zhou

Makeup transfer aims to apply the makeup style from a reference face to a target face and has been increasingly adopted in practical applications. Existing GAN-based approaches typically rely on carefully designed loss functions to balance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Jian Zhu , Shanyuan Liu , Liuzhuozheng Li , Yue Gong , He Wang , Bo Cheng , Yuhang Ma , Liebucha Wu , Xiaoyu Wu , Dawei Leng , Yuhui Yin , Yang Xu

Convolutional Neural Networks have reached extremely high performances on the Face Recognition task. Largely used datasets, such as VGGFace2, focus on gender, pose and age variations trying to balance them to achieve better results.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-23 Fabio Valerio Massoli , Giuseppe Amato , Fabrizio Falchi

This paper presents a Deep convolutional network model for Identity-Aware Transfer (DIAT) of facial attributes. Given the source input image and the reference attribute, DIAT aims to generate a facial image that owns the reference attribute…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-07 Mu Li , Wangmeng Zuo , David Zhang

Reference-based image super-resolution (RefSR) is a promising SR branch and has shown great potential in overcoming the limitations of single image super-resolution. While previous state-of-the-art RefSR methods mainly focus on improving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-09 Lin Zhang , Xin Li , Dongliang He , Fu Li , Yili Wang , Zhaoxiang Zhang