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Face is one of the most important things for communication with the world around us. It also forms our identity and expressions. Estimating the face structure is a fundamental task in computer vision with applications in different areas…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-07 Kimia Dinashi , Ramin Toosi , Mohammad Ali Akhaee

Remote user verification in Internet-based applications is becoming increasingly important nowadays. A popular scenario for it consists of submitting a picture of the user's Identity Document (ID) to a service platform, authenticating its…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Javier Muñoz-Haro , Ruben Tolosana , Julian Fierrez , Ruben Vera-Rodriguez , Aythami Morales

Synthetic images generated from deep generative models have the potential to address data scarcity and data privacy issues. The selection of synthesis models is mostly based on image quality measurements, and most researchers favor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Xiaodan Xing , Federico Felder , Yang Nan , Giorgos Papanastasiou , Walsh Simon , Guang Yang

With the ever-growing power of generative artificial intelligence, deepfake and artificially generated (synthetic) media have continued to spread online, which creates various ethical and moral concerns regarding their usage. To tackle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Shahzeb Naeem , Ramzi Al-Sharawi , Muhammad Riyyan Khan , Usman Tariq , Abhinav Dhall , Hasan Al-Nashash

Deep Learning systems need large data for training. Datasets for training face verification systems are difficult to obtain and prone to privacy issues. Synthetic data generated by generative models such as GANs can be a good alternative.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-06 Sasikanth Kotti , Mayank Vatsa , Richa Singh

Recent advances in machine learning and computer vision have led to reported facial recognition accuracies surpassing human performance. We question if these systems will translate to real-world forensic scenarios in which a potentially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-13 Justin Norman , Shruti Agarwal , Hany Farid

The increasing reliance on large-scale datasets in machine learning poses significant privacy and ethical challenges, particularly in sensitive domains such as face recognition. Synthetic data generation offers a promising alternative;…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Parsa Rahimi , Damien Teney , Sebastien Marcel

A major limitation to advances in fingerprint spoof detection is the lack of publicly available, large-scale fingerprint spoof datasets, a problem which has been compounded by increased concerns surrounding privacy and security of biometric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Steven A. Grosz , Anil K. Jain

Many of the commonly used datasets for face recognition development are collected from the internet without proper user consent. Due to the increasing focus on privacy in the social and legal frameworks, the use and distribution of these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Jan Niklas Kolf , Tim Rieber , Jurek Elliesen , Fadi Boutros , Arjan Kuijper , Naser Damer

Accurate pain assessment in patients with limited ability to communicate, such as older adults with severe dementia, represents a critical healthcare challenge. Robust automated systems of pain behavior detection may facilitate such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Babak Taati , Muhammad Muzammil , Yasamin Zarghami , Abhishek Moturu , Amirhossein Kazerouni , Hailey Reimer , Alex Mihailidis , Thomas Hadjistavropoulos

The vast progress in synthetic image synthesis enables the generation of facial images in high resolution and photorealism. In biometric applications, the main motivation for using synthetic data is to solve the shortage of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-18 Marcel Grimmer , Haoyu Zhang , Raghavendra Ramachandra , Kiran Raja , Christoph Busch

Recent advancements in generative AI have made it possible to create synthetic datasets that can be as accurate as real-world data for training AI models, powering statistical insights, and fostering collaboration with sensitive datasets…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Amy Steier , Lipika Ramaswamy , Andre Manoel , Alexa Haushalter

Synthetic datasets have long been thought of as second-rate, to be used only when "real" data collected directly from the real world is unavailable. But this perspective assumes that raw data is clean, unbiased, and trustworthy, which it…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Luke Rodriguez , Bill Howe

Sharing data can often enable compelling applications and analytics. However, more often than not, valuable datasets contain information of a sensitive nature, and thus, sharing them can endanger the privacy of users and organizations. A…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Emiliano De Cristofaro

With the advent of generative modeling techniques, synthetic data and its use has penetrated across various domains from unstructured data such as image, text to structured dataset modeling healthcare outcome, risk decisioning in financial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Aman Gupta , Deepak Bhatt , Anubha Pandey

Deep fakes became extremely popular in the last years, also thanks to their increasing realism. Therefore, there is the need to measures human's ability to distinguish between real and synthetic face images when confronted with cutting-edge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-12 Federica Lago , Cecilia Pasquini , Rainer Böhme , Hélène Dumont , Valérie Goffaux , Giulia Boato

The switch from a Model-Centric to a Data-Centric mindset is putting emphasis on data and its quality rather than algorithms, bringing forward new challenges. In particular, the sensitive nature of the information in highly regulated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Giorgio Visani , Giacomo Graffi , Mattia Alfero , Enrico Bagli , Davide Capuzzo , Federico Chesani

Real-world data often exhibits bias, imbalance, and privacy risks. Synthetic datasets have emerged to address these issues. This paradigm relies on generative AI models to generate unbiased, privacy-preserving data while maintaining…

The Real Face Dataset is a pedestrian face detection benchmark dataset in the wild, comprising over 11,000 images and over 55,000 detected faces in various ambient conditions. The dataset aims to provide a comprehensive and diverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Leonardo Ramos Thomas

Face recognition and verification are two computer vision tasks whose performance has progressed with the introduction of deep representations. However, ethical, legal, and technical challenges due to the sensitive character of face data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Alexandre Fournier-Montgieux , Michael Soumm , Adrian Popescu , Bertrand Luvison , Hervé Le Borgne