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Lane detection is a critical component of Advanced Driver-Assistance Systems (ADAS) and Automated Driving System (ADS), providing essential spatial information for lateral control. However, domain shifts often undermine model reliability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Yin Wu , Daniel Slieter , Ahmed Abouelazm , Christian Hubschneider , J. Marius Zöllner

Face recognition performance based on deep learning heavily relies on large-scale training data, which is often difficult to acquire in practical applications. To address this challenge, this paper proposes a GAN-based data augmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Zhongwen Li , Zongwei Li , Xiaoqi Li

Alignment or registration of functions is a fundamental problem in statistical analysis of functions and shapes. While there are several approaches available, a more recent approach based on Fisher-Rao metric and square-root velocity…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-04-12 Xiaoyang Guo , Wei Wu , Anuj Srivastava

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

Feature point detection and description is the backbone for various computer vision applications, such as Structure-from-Motion, visual SLAM, and visual place recognition. While learning-based methods have surpassed traditional handcrafted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Ali Youssef , Francisco Vasconcelos

We present a novel convolutional neural network (CNN) design for facial landmark coordinate regression. We examine the intermediate features of a standard CNN trained for landmark detection and show that features extracted from later, more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-03-23 Yue Wu , Tal Hassner , KangGeon Kim , Gerard Medioni , Prem Natarajan

Facial landmark detection aims to localize the anatomically defined points of human faces. In this paper, we study facial landmark detection from partially labeled facial images. A typical approach is to (1) train a detector on the labeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-14 Xuanyi Dong , Yi Yang

Recently, facial landmark detection algorithms have achieved remarkable performance on static images. However, these algorithms are neither accurate nor stable in motion-blurred videos. The missing of structure information makes it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Keqiang Sun , Wayne Wu , Tinghao Liu , Shuo Yang , Quan Wang , Qiang Zhou , Zuochang Ye , Chen Qian

Being accurate, efficient, and compact is essential to a facial landmark detector for practical use. To simultaneously consider the three concerns, this paper investigates a neat model with promising detection accuracy under wild…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Xiaojie Guo , Siyuan Li , Jinke Yu , Jiawan Zhang , Jiayi Ma , Lin Ma , Wei Liu , Haibin Ling

Cascaded Regression (CR) based methods have been proposed to solve facial landmarks detection problem, which learn a series of descent directions by multiple cascaded regressors separately trained in coarse and fine stages. They outperform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-20 Tao Hu , Honggang Qi , Jizheng Xu , Qingming Huang

Recent advances in facial landmark detection achieve success by learning discriminative features from rich deformation of face shapes and poses. Besides the variance of faces themselves, the intrinsic variance of image styles, e.g.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-23 Xuanyi Dong , Yan Yan , Wanli Ouyang , Yi Yang

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

The proposed framework in this paper has the primary objective of classifying the facial expression shown by a person. These classifiable expressions can be any one of the six universal emotions along with the neutral emotion. After the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Fuzail Khan

Automatic facial age estimation can be used in a wide range of real-world applications. However, this process is challenging due to the randomness and slowness of the aging process. Accordingly, in this paper, we propose a comprehensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Xusheng Zeng , Changxing Ding , Yonggang Wen , Dacheng Tao

We present an approach that combines automatic features learned by convolutional neural networks (CNN) and handcrafted features computed by the bag-of-visual-words (BOVW) model in order to achieve state-of-the-art results in facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-16 Mariana-Iuliana Georgescu , Radu Tudor Ionescu , Marius Popescu

Face Recognition has been studied for many decades. As opposed to traditional hand-crafted features such as LBP and HOG, much more sophisticated features can be learned automatically by deep learning methods in a data-driven way. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-07-24 Jingtuo Liu , Yafeng Deng , Tao Bai , Zhengping Wei , Chang Huang

Face recognition has witnessed significant progresses due to the advances of deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs), the central challenge of which, is feature discrimination. To address it, one group tries to exploit mining-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-01 Xiaobo Wang , Shuo Wang , Shifeng Zhang , Tianyu Fu , Hailin Shi , Tao Mei

Top-performing landmark estimation algorithms are based on exploiting the excellent ability of large convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to represent local appearance. However, it is well known that they can only learn weak spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Andrés Prados-Torreblanca , José M. Buenaposada , Luis Baumela

Three-dimensional facial stereophotogrammetry provides a detailed representation of craniofacial soft tissue without the use of ionizing radiation. While manual annotation of landmarks serves as the current gold standard for cephalometric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Bo Berends , Freek Bielevelt , Ruud Schreurs , Shankeeth Vinayahalingam , Thomas Maal , Guido de Jong

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