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Anonymization plays a key role in protecting sensible information of individuals in real world datasets. Self-driving cars for example need high resolution facial features to track people and their viewing direction to predict future…

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Modern face recognition (FR) models excel in constrained scenarios, but often suffer from decreased performance when deployed in unconstrained (real-world) environments due to uncertainties surrounding the quality of the captured facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Žiga Babnik , Peter Peer , Vitomir Štruc

We present StyleClone, a method for training image-to-image translation networks to stylize faces in a specific style, even with limited style images. Our approach leverages textual inversion and diffusion-based guided image generation to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Neeraj Matiyali , Siddharth Srivastava , Gaurav Sharma

We present DiffExplainer, a novel framework that, leveraging language-vision models, enables multimodal global explainability. DiffExplainer employs diffusion models conditioned on optimized text prompts, synthesizing images that maximize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Matteo Pennisi , Giovanni Bellitto , Simone Palazzo , Mubarak Shah , Concetto Spampinato

Face aging simulation has received rising investigations nowadays, whereas it still remains a challenge to generate convincing and natural age-progressed face images. In this paper, we present a novel approach to such an issue by using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-04 Hongyu Yang , Di Huang , Yunhong Wang , Heng Wang , Yuanyan Tang

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

Latent Diffusion Models (LDMs) enable a wide range of applications but raise ethical concerns regarding illegal utilization. Adding watermarks to generative model outputs is a vital technique employed for copyright tracking and mitigating…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Liangqi Lei , Keke Gai , Jing Yu , Liehuang Zhu

Blind face restoration endeavors to restore a clear face image from a degraded counterpart. Recent approaches employing Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) as priors have demonstrated remarkable success in this field. However, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Xiaobin Lu , Xiaobin Hu , Jun Luo , Ben Zhu , Yaping Ruan , Wenqi Ren

To enhance the security of text CAPTCHAs, various methods have been employed, such as adding the interference lines on the text, randomly distorting the characters, and overlapping multiple characters. These methods partly increase the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Ran Jiang , Sanfeng Zhang , Linfeng Liu , Yanbing Peng

In this work we propose Identity Consistency Transformer, a novel face forgery detection method that focuses on high-level semantics, specifically identity information, and detecting a suspect face by finding identity inconsistency in inner…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Xiaoyi Dong , Jianmin Bao , Dongdong Chen , Ting Zhang , Weiming Zhang , Nenghai Yu , Dong Chen , Fang Wen , Baining Guo

Detecting unknown deepfake manipulations remains one of the most challenging problems in face forgery detection. Current state-of-the-art approaches fail to generalize to unseen manipulations, as they primarily rely on supervised training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Kaede Shiohara , Toshihiko Yamasaki , Vladislav Golyanik

Blind face restoration (BFR) is a highly challenging problem due to the uncertainty of degradation patterns. Current methods have low generalization across photorealistic and heterogeneous domains. In this paper, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Nan Gao , Jia Li , Huaibo Huang , Zhi Zeng , Ke Shang , Shuwu Zhang , Ran He

Facial analysis is an active research area in computer vision, with many practical applications. Most of the existing studies focus on addressing one specific task and maximizing its performance. For a complete facial analysis system, one…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-23 Bishwo Adhikari , Xingyang Ni , Esa Rahtu , Heikki Huttunen

Current face anonymization techniques often depend on identity loss calculated by face recognition models, which can be inaccurate and unreliable. Additionally, many methods require supplementary data such as facial landmarks and masks to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Han-Wei Kung , Tuomas Varanka , Sanjay Saha , Terence Sim , Nicu Sebe

Blind face restoration methods have shown remarkable performance, particularly when trained on large-scale synthetic datasets with supervised learning. These datasets are often generated by simulating low-quality face images with a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Tianshu Kuai , Sina Honari , Igor Gilitschenski , Alex Levinshtein

Facial aging is a complex process, highly dependent on multiple factors like gender, ethnicity, lifestyle, etc., making it extremely challenging to learn a global aging prior to predict aging for any individual accurately. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Luchao Qi , Jiaye Wu , Bang Gong , Annie N. Wang , David W. Jacobs , Roni Sengupta

3D face editing is a significant task in multimedia, aimed at the manipulation of 3D face models across various control signals. The success of 3D-aware GAN provides expressive 3D models learned from 2D single-view images only, encouraging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Zhuo Chen , Yichao Yan , Sehngqi Liu , Yuhao Cheng , Weiming Zhao , Lincheng Li , Mengxiao Bi , Xiaokang Yang

Erase inpainting, or object removal, aims to precisely remove target objects within masked regions while preserving the overall consistency of the surrounding content. Despite diffusion-based methods have made significant strides in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Yi Liu , Hao Zhou , Wenxiang Shang , Ran Lin , Benlei Cui

Advances in Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing are changing the way people interacts with digital images and video. Widespread mobile apps like FACEAPP make use of the most advanced Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) to produce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-14 Luca Guarnera , Oliver Giudice , Sebastiano Battiato

Diffusion models have demonstrated their ability to generate diverse and high-quality images, sparking considerable interest in their potential for real image editing applications. However, existing diffusion-based approaches for local…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Wenjing Huang , Shikui Tu , Lei Xu