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In recent years, the performance of face verification systems has significantly improved using deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs). A typical pipeline for face verification includes training a deep network for subject classification…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-09 Rajeev Ranjan , Carlos D. Castillo , Rama Chellappa

Learning the discriminative features of different faces is an important task in face recognition. By extracting face features in neural networks, it becomes easy to measure the similarity of different face images, which makes face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Jiamu Xu , Xiaoxiang Liu , Xinyuan Zhang , Yain-Whar Si , Xiaofan Li , Zheng Shi , Ke Wang , Xueyuan Gong

Face recognition has made extraordinary progress owing to the advancement of deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs). The central task of face recognition, including face verification and identification, involves face feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-04 Hao Wang , Yitong Wang , Zheng Zhou , Xing Ji , Dihong Gong , Jingchao Zhou , Zhifeng Li , Wei Liu

Recognition in low quality face datasets is challenging because facial attributes are obscured and degraded. Advances in margin-based loss functions have resulted in enhanced discriminability of faces in the embedding space. Further,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Minchul Kim , Anil K. Jain , Xiaoming Liu

In face recognition, designing margin-based (e.g., angular, additive, additive angular margins) softmax loss functions plays an important role in learning discriminative features. However, these hand-crafted heuristic methods are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Xiaobo Wang , Shuo Wang , Cheng Chi , Shifeng Zhang , Tao Mei

With the development of convolutional neural network, significant progress has been made in computer vision tasks. However, the commonly used loss function softmax loss and highly efficient network architecture for common visual tasks are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-27 Xianyang Li , Feng Wang , Qinghao Hu , Cong Leng

With the development of deep learning, Deep Metric Learning (DML) has achieved great improvements in face recognition. Specifically, the widely used softmax loss in the training process often bring large intra-class variations, and feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-02 Bowen Wu , Huaming Wu , Monica M. Y. Zhang

Recognizability, a key perceptual factor in human face processing, strongly affects the performance of face recognition (FR) systems in both verification and identification tasks. Effectively using recognizability to enhance feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Duc-Phuong Doan-Ngo , Thanh-Dang Diep , Thanh Nguyen-Duc , Thanh-Sach LE , Nam Thoai

Face recognition has witnessed significant progress due to the advances of deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs), the central task of which is how to improve the feature discrimination. To this end, several margin-based (\textit{e.g.},…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Xiaobo Wang , Shifeng Zhang , Shuo Wang , Tianyu Fu , Hailin Shi , Tao Mei

The softmax-based loss functions and its variants (e.g., cosface, sphereface, and arcface) significantly improve the face recognition performance in wild unconstrained scenes. A common practice of these algorithms is to perform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-25 Hongwei Xu , Suncheng Xiang , Dahong Qian

In recent years, the performance of face verification and recognition systems based on deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) has significantly improved. A typical pipeline for face verification includes training a deep network for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-05 Rajeev Ranjan , Ankan Bansal , Hongyu Xu , Swami Sankaranarayanan , Jun-Cheng Chen , Carlos D. Castillo , Rama Chellappa

Feature learning is a widely used method employed for large-scale face recognition. Recently, large-margin softmax loss methods have demonstrated significant enhancements on deep face recognition. These methods propose fixed positive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Chingis Oinar , Binh M. Le , Simon S. Woo

Face recognition is one of the most widely publicized feature in the devices today and hence represents an important problem that should be studied with the utmost priority. As per the recent trends, the Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-07 Yash Srivastava , Vaishnav Murali , Shiv Ram Dubey

Performance in face and speaker verification is largely driven by margin-based softmax losses such as CosFace and ArcFace. Recently introduced $\alpha$-divergence loss functions offer a compelling alternative, particularly due to their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Dimitrios Koutsianos , Ladislav Mosner , Yannis Panagakis , Themos Stafylakis

In this paper, we propose a conceptually simple and geometrically interpretable objective function, i.e. additive margin Softmax (AM-Softmax), for deep face verification. In general, the face verification task can be viewed as a metric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-31 Feng Wang , Weiyang Liu , Haijun Liu , Jian Cheng

Face recognition (FR) using deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) has seen remarkable success in recent years. One key ingredient of DCNN-based FR is the appropriate design of a loss function that ensures discrimination between various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Syed Safwan Khalid , Muhammad Awais , Chi-Ho Chan , Zhenhua Feng , Ammarah Farooq , Ali Akbari , Josef Kittler

Thanks to the recent developments of Convolutional Neural Networks, the performance of face verification methods has increased rapidly. In a typical face verification method, feature normalization is a critical step for boosting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-27 Feng Wang , Xiang Xiang , Jian Cheng , Alan L. Yuille

Researches using margin based comparison loss demonstrate the effectiveness of penalizing the distance between face feature and their corresponding class centers. Despite their popularity and excellent performance, they do not explicitly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-12 Ying Huang , Shangfeng Qiu , Wenwei Zhang , Xianghui Luo , Jinzhuo Wang

Learning discriminative face features plays a major role in building high-performing face recognition models. The recent state-of-the-art face recognition solutions proposed to incorporate a fixed penalty margin on commonly used…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Fadi Boutros , Naser Damer , Florian Kirchbuchner , Arjan Kuijper

Face Recognition (FR) is used in a variety of application domains, from entertainment and banking to security and surveillance. Such applications rely on the FR model to be robust and perform well in a variety of settings. To achieve this,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Žiga Babnik , Fadi Boutros , Naser Damer , Deepak Kumar Jain , Peter Peer , Vitomir Štruc
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