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Diffusion models have shown exceptional scaling properties in the image synthesis domain, and initial attempts have shown similar benefits for applying diffusion to unconditional text synthesis. Denoising diffusion models attempt to…

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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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Deformable image registration is one of the fundamental tasks in medical imaging. Classical registration algorithms usually require a high computational cost for iterative optimizations. Although deep-learning-based methods have been…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-30 Boah Kim , Inhwa Han , Jong Chul Ye

Face image synthesis is gaining more attention in computer security due to concerns about its potential negative impacts, including those related to fake biometrics. Hence, building models that can detect the synthesized face images is an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Roberto Leyva , Victor Sanchez , Gregory Epiphaniou , Carsten Maple

In the realm of multimedia data analysis, the extensive use of image datasets has escalated concerns over privacy protection within such data. Current research predominantly focuses on privacy protection either in data sharing or upon the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Huaxi Huang , Xin Yuan , Qiyu Liao , Dadong Wang , Tongliang Liu

Facial attribute editing and style manipulation are crucial for applications like virtual avatars and photo editing. However, achieving precise control over facial attributes without altering unrelated features is challenging due to the…

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

The success of deep face recognition (FR) systems has raised serious privacy concerns due to their ability to enable unauthorized tracking of users in the digital world. Previous studies proposed introducing imperceptible adversarial noises…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Minghui Li , Jiangxiong Wang , Hao Zhang , Ziqi Zhou , Shengshan Hu , Xiaobing Pei

Face deidentification is an active topic amongst privacy and security researchers. Early deidentification methods relying on image blurring or pixelization were replaced in recent years with techniques based on formal anonymity models that…

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Adversarial attacks involve adding perturbations to the source image to cause misclassification by the target model, which demonstrates the potential of attacking face recognition models. Existing adversarial face image generation methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Decheng Liu , Xijun Wang , Chunlei Peng , Nannan Wang , Ruiming Hu , Xinbo Gao

Face verification is a well-known image analysis application and is widely used to recognize individuals in contemporary society. However, most real-world recognition systems ignore the importance of protecting the identity-sensitive facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Huan-Chih Wang , Ja-Ling Wu

While the rapid development of facial recognition algorithms has enabled numerous beneficial applications, their widespread deployment has raised significant concerns about the risks of mass surveillance and threats to individual privacy.…

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Recent advancements in text-guided diffusion models have shown promise for general image editing via inversion techniques, but often struggle to maintain ID and structural consistency in real face editing tasks. To address this limitation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Yang Hou , Minggu Wang , Jianjun Zhao

The performance of automated face recognition systems is inevitably impacted by the facial aging process. However, high quality datasets of individuals collected over several years are typically small in scale. In this work, we propose,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Sudipta Banerjee , Govind Mittal , Ameya Joshi , Chinmay Hegde , Nasir Memon

Inspired by the impressive performance of recent face image editing methods, several studies have been naturally proposed to extend these methods to the face video editing task. One of the main challenges here is temporal consistency among…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Gyeongman Kim , Hajin Shim , Hyunsu Kim , Yunjey Choi , Junho Kim , Eunho Yang

Editing real facial images is a crucial task in computer vision with significant demand in various real-world applications. While GAN-based methods have showed potential in manipulating images especially when combined with CLIP, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Dongxu Yue , Qin Guo , Munan Ning , Jiaxi Cui , Yuesheng Zhu , Li Yuan

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

Morphed face images have recently become a growing concern for existing face verification systems, as they are relatively easy to generate and can be used to impersonate someone's identity for various malicious purposes. Efficient Morphing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Marija Ivanovska , Vitomir Štruc

Palmprint recognition techniques have advanced significantly in recent years, enabling reliable recognition even when palmprints are captured in uncontrolled or challenging environments. However, this strength also introduces new risks, as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Licheng Yan , Bob Zhang , Andrew Beng Jin Teoh , Lu Leng , Shuyi Li , Yuqi Wang , Ziyuan Yang

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

Virtual faces are crucial content in the metaverse. Recently, attempts have been made to generate virtual faces for privacy protection. Nevertheless, these virtual faces either permanently remove the identifiable information or map the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Miaomiao Wang , Guang Hua , Sheng Li , Guorui Feng