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Fairness is crucial when training a deep-learning discriminative model, especially in the facial domain. Models tend to correlate specific characteristics (such as age and skin color) with unrelated attributes (downstream tasks), resulting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Moreno D'Incà , Christos Tzelepis , Ioannis Patras , Nicu Sebe

Reward Feedback Learning (ReFL) has recently shown great potential in aligning model outputs with human preferences across various generative tasks. In this work, we introduce a ReFL framework, named DiffusionReward, to the Blind Face…

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Robust invisible watermarking aims to embed hidden information into images such that the watermark can survive various image manipulations. However, the rise of powerful diffusion-based image generation and editing techniques poses a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Yunyi Ni , Finn Carter , Ze Niu , Emily Davis , Bo Zhang

Recent advances in diffusion models have introduced a new era of text-guided image manipulation, enabling users to create realistic edited images with simple textual prompts. However, there is significant concern about the potential misuse…

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Virtual try-on (VTON) aims to synthesize realistic images of a person wearing a target garment, with broad applications in e-commerce and digital fashion. While recent advances in latent diffusion models have substantially improved visual…

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To prevent unauthorized use of text in images, Scene Text Removal (STR) has become a crucial task. It focuses on automatically removing text and replacing it with a natural, text-less background while preserving significant details such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Sanhita Pathak , Vinay Kaushik , Brejesh Lall

Diffusion probabilistic models (DPMs) have exhibited exceptional proficiency in generating visual media of outstanding quality and realism. Nonetheless, their potential in non-generative domains, such as face recognition, has yet to be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Bowen Sun , Shibao Zheng

The increasingly pervasive facial recognition (FR) systems raise serious concerns about personal privacy, especially for billions of users who have publicly shared their photos on social media. Several attempts have been made to protect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Jiang Liu , Chun Pong Lau , Zhongliang Guo , Yuxiang Guo , Zhaoyang Wang , Rama Chellappa

The Convolutional Neural Network has amazed us with its usage on several applications. Age range estimation using CNN is emerging due to its application in myriad of areas which makes it a state-of-the-art area for research and improve the…

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Facial attribute classification relies on large-scale annotated datasets in which many traits, such as age and expression, are inherently ambiguous and continuous but are discretized into categorical labels. Annotation inconsistencies arise…

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Face anti-spoofing is crucial for ensuring the security and reliability of face recognition systems. Several existing face anti-spoofing methods utilize GAN-like networks to detect presentation attacks by estimating the noise pattern of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Bin Zhang , Xiangyu Zhu , Xiaoyu Zhang , Zhen Lei

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…

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Robust invisible watermarking schemes aim to embed hidden information into images such that the watermark survives common manipulations. However, powerful diffusion-based image generation and editing techniques now pose a new threat to…

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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…

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Facial attribute editing aims to modify target attributes while preserving attribute-irrelevant content and overall image fidelity. Existing GAN-based methods provide favorable controllability, but often suffer from weak alignment between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Wenmin Huang , Weiqi Luo , Xiaochun Cao , Jiwu Huang

This paper presents a novel deep learning-based approach for simultaneous age and gender classification from facial images, designed to enhance the effectiveness of targeted advertising campaigns. We propose a custom Convolutional Neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Muhammad Imran Zaman , Nisar Ahmed

We introduce the Aging Multiverse, a framework for generating multiple plausible facial aging trajectories from a single image, each conditioned on external factors such as environment, health, and lifestyle. Unlike prior methods that model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Bang Gong , Luchao Qi , Jiaye Wu , Zhicheng Fu , Chunbo Song , David W. Jacobs , John Nicholson , Roni Sengupta

Although diffusion models are rising as a powerful solution for blind face restoration, they are criticized for two problems: 1) slow training and inference speed, and 2) failure in preserving identity and recovering fine-grained facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Yunqi Miao , Jiankang Deng , Jungong Han

The rapid growth of social media has led to the widespread sharing of individual portrait images, which pose serious privacy risks due to the capabilities of automatic face recognition (AFR) systems for mass surveillance. Hence, protecting…

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