A new deep metric learning method pulls embeddings towards dense clusters to improve classification accuracy.
problem Improving classification accuracy in deep metric learning models.
method Density Aware Metric Learning (DAML) which pulls embeddings towards the densest regions of clusters for each class.
result DAML achieves faster convergence and higher generalizability compared to existing methods.
Despite the remarkable progress in face recognition related technologies, reliably recognizing faces across ages still remains a big challenge. The appearance of a human face changes substantially over time, resulting in significant intra-class variations. As opposed to current techniques for age-invariant face recogni…
Enhances 2D face recognition with 3D features using active illumination.
problem Improving robustness of 2D face recognition to spoofing attacks and low-light conditions.
method Projecting a high spatial frequency pattern onto the face to recover 3D information and a 2D image simultaneously.
result Significantly boosts face recognition performance and dramatically improves robustness to spoofing attacks.
Computational modeling of human multimodal language is an emerging research area in natural language processing spanning the language, visual and acoustic modalities. Comprehending multimodal language requires modeling not only the interactions within each modality (intra-modal interactions) but more importantly the in…
Paper improves video feature learning for better downstream tasks.
problem Improving video feature learning for better performance on downstream tasks.
method Self-supervised learning approach using contrastive bidirectional transformer, extending BERT for real-valued feature vectors.
result Significantly improved performance on video classification, captioning, and segmentation tasks.
Paper proposes a framework to protect user anonymity in emotion recognition.
problem Preserving user anonymity in face-based emotion recognition systems.
method Adversarial learning framework using CNN architecture.
result The proposed approach minimizes identity-specific information and maximizes emotion-dependent information.
Face recognition systems are vulnerable to composite face reconstruction attacks.
problem Vulnerability of face recognition systems to composite face reconstruction attacks.
method Assumed attacker uses composite face parts to reconstruct faces faster and more efficiently.
result Current face recognition systems are extremely vulnerable to random search attacks.
New test assesses shared brain activity across different cognitive modalities.
problem Determining if different cognitive modalities use overlapping neural representations.
method Formulated a statistical hypothesis testing approach using permutation testing.
result New test (CMPT) has greater statistical power than cross-modal decoding while maintaining low Type I errors.
Paper proposes tensor sparse PCA for improved face recognition accuracy.
problem Face recognition accuracy improvement using novel methods.
method Combines tensor sparse PCA with nearest-neighbor and kernel ridge regression methods.
result Tensor sparse PCA method yields better accuracy than PCA method alone.
Face recognition system trained with noisy labels.
problem Label noise in training deep learning classifiers.
method Review and apply recent methods to manage noisy annotations.
result Improved performance of face recognition system with noisy labels.
New method generates unrestricted adversarial face images to bypass robust face recognition systems.
problem Vulnerability of face recognition systems to unrestricted adversarial examples.
method Image translation techniques to generate large perturbations in face images.
result Achieved high attack success rates (90% and 80%) under white- and black-box settings. AV-CPL uses continuous pseudo-labels for AVSR combining labeled and unlabeled data.
problem Improving AVSR performance with labeled and unlabeled data.
method Semi-supervised method using continuous pseudo-labels generated by the same AVSR model.
result Significant improvements in VSR performance on LRS3 dataset.
This paper reviews deep learning techniques for face recognition and sketch matching.
problem Matching composite sketches to photo images of faces is challenging due to limited details.
method Uses deep learning for feature extraction and classification in face recognition.
result Deep learning improves face recognition accuracy with large datasets.
Paper proposes a method to encrypt faces while maintaining visual similarity.
problem Protecting personal data from unauthorized face recognition.
method Targeted identity-protection iterative method (TIP-IM) to generate adversarial identity masks.
result TIP-IM provides 95%+ protection success rate against face recognition models.
Optimizes master faces for 2D and 3D face verification using evolutionary algorithms and neural networks.
problem Impersonation attacks using master faces for face-based identity authentication.
method Evolutionary algorithm in latent space of StyleGAN, neural network to direct search, 2D and 3D face reconstruction.
result Obtains high impersonation rates with fewer master faces for 2D and 3D face verification.
MAESTRO improves multimodal learning for dynamic time series with adaptive attention and robustness.
problem Challenges in multimodal learning, especially in healthcare and daily living.
method Dynamic intra- and cross-modal interactions, symbolic tokenization, adaptive attention budgeting, sparse cross-modal attention, MoE mechanism.
result Average relative improvements of 4% and 8% over existing multimodal and multivariate approaches, respectively, under complete observations.
Recently, two-dimensional canonical correlation analysis (2DCCA) has been successfully applied for image feature extraction. The method instead of concatenating the columns of the images to the one-dimensional vectors, directly works with two-dimensional image matrices. Although 2DCCA works well in different recognitio…
The study improves the assessment of fairness in face recognition using ROC curves and statistical guarantees.
problem Improving the assessment of fairness in face recognition systems.
method Proves asymptotic guarantees for empirical ROC curves and fairness metrics, and introduces a recentering technique to avoid bootstrap pitfalls.
result Demonstrates the practical relevance of the methods for assessing fairness in face recognition systems.
Pixel-wise relevance method shows how CNNs classify faces, varying across datasets and tasks.
problem Interpreting black-box CNN face recognition models.
method Layer-wise relevance propagation (LRP) applied to VGG-16 models trained for face recognition.
result Relevance maps are generally stable across random initializations and tasks, but less so across pretraining datasets.
DNN-based cross-modal retrieval has become a research hotspot, by which users can search results across various modalities like image and text. However, existing methods mainly focus on the pairwise correlation and reconstruction error of labeled data. They ignore the semantically similar and dissimilar constraints bet…
DeepEthnic classifies faces into ethnic groups with high accuracy.
problem Classifying faces into ethnic groups using machine learning.
method Transfer learning from a large-scale data recognition network.
result State-of-the-art success rates for four ethnic groups.
New unsupervised learning framework for sound recognition.
problem Learning sound recognition without explicit labels.
method Combines self-supervised and clustering objectives with active learning.
result Achieves state-of-the-art unsupervised audio representation with reduced labels.
A new weighted FDA method improves face recognition accuracy.
problem Equal treatment of all class pairs in FDA leads to suboptimal performance.
method Cosine-weighted and automatically weighted FDA methods are proposed.
result Improved face recognition accuracy through weighted FDA.
Paper proposes angular loss for better face recognition and object classification.
problem Improving intra-class compactness and preventing overfitting in face recognition and object classification.
method Angular loss function to maximize angular gradient, reducing overfitting and requiring only one adjustable constant.
result Our method outperforms other methods in accuracy, discriminative information, and time-efficiency.
A new hashing method handles complex multi-level labels.
problem Handling complex multi-level labels in cross-modal data retrieval.
method Derives a semantic ranking list from feature and label information, integrates semantic ranking into deep cross-modal hashing.
result RDCMH outperforms other methods in cross-modal retrieval applications.
A novel cross-modal auto-encoder associates different data types efficiently.
problem Cross-modal data association in heterogeneous datasets.
method Bayesian inference framework with variational auto-encoders and associators.
result Successfully associates visual and auditory data with minimal paired data.
Contrastive examples improve fairness in face recognition by balancing minority and majority groups.
problem Face recognition algorithms favor majority groups in training data.
method Create contrastive examples by swapping group memberships in the training dataset.
result Contrastive examples improve fairness metrics like equalized odds.
New NMF algorithm uses Toeplitz matrix for facial recognition.
problem Facial recognition performance improvement.
method Proposes TNMF algorithm with Toeplitz penalty for NMF.
result TNMF outperforms ZNMF and other constrained NMF algorithms.
Paper proposes a new unsupervised method for cross-modality data translation without requiring direct mappings.
problem Tackles the challenge of zero-shot cross-modality data translation with fidelity.
method Mutual Information guided Diffusion cross-modality data translation Model (MIDiffusion) using score-matching and stochastic diffusion.
result Empirically shows advanced performance compared to other generative models.
Boosts neural network performance by improving weight separability.
problem Improving the separability of weight vectors in neural networks.
method Proposes a new evaluation metric and feed-backward reconstruction loss to encourage weight separability.
result Improves visual recognition performance across various tasks.
Reduces gender classification bias by learning race-invariant face representations.
problem Societal bias in gender recognition systems.
method Adversarially trained autoencoder model to learn race-invariant face representations.
result Achieved a significant drop of over 40% in racial bias surrogate metric with race invariant representations.
Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) based approaches are the state-of-the-art in various computer vision tasks, including face recognition. Considerable research effort is currently being directed towards further improving deep CNNs by focusing on more powerful model architectures and better learning techniques. …
The state-of-the-art performance of deep learning algorithms has led to a considerable increase in the utilization of machine learning in security-sensitive and critical applications. However, it has recently been shown that a small and carefully crafted perturbation in the input space can completely fool a deep model.…
Study improves cross-modal bike-share and transit demand prediction.
problem Cross-modal ripple effects in urban transportation demand.
method Transfer learning and stacked LSTM models for cross-modal demand prediction.
result Transfer learning models outperform unimodal models in cross-modal demand prediction.
In this paper we investigate the feasibility of using synthetic data to augment face datasets. In particular, we propose a novel generative adversarial network (GAN) that can disentangle identity-related attributes from non-identity-related attributes. This is done by training an embedding network that maps discrete id…
Paper proposes ONTD for nonnegative tensor data.
problem Handling nonnegative tensor data efficiently.
method Orthogonal Nonnegative Tucker Decomposition (ONTD) with convex relaxation algorithm.
result Demonstrates effectiveness on real-world image data applications.
MoCA uses a novel autoencoder to analyze multi-modal health data.
problem Challenges in analyzing continuous multi-modal health data from wearable devices.
method Proposes MoCA, a self-supervised learning framework combining transformer and masked autoencoder methods.
result Demonstrates strong performance boosts across reconstruction and classification tasks.
MHVAE learns cross-modality inference inspired by human cognition.
problem Cross-modality inference in multimodal data.
method Hierarchical multimodal generative model with modality-specific and joint-modality distributions.
result MHVAE performs on par with state-of-the-art models on multimodal datasets.
Improves neural network mapping functionality using latent feature generation.
problem Improving neural network performance in visual recognition tasks.
method Reversible learning for generating and learning latent features.
result The proposed method outperforms existing state-of-the-art methods in visual recognition.
TAP transfers knowledge from unlabeled data to improve cross-modal learning.
problem Improving supervised learning performance using unlabeled data from a different modality.
method Probabilistic approach for missing information estimation, kernel regression, cross-attention module, TAP neural network.
result TAP significantly improves generalization across different domains and neural network architectures.
While several approaches to face emotion recognition task are proposed in literature, none of them reports on power consumption nor inference time required to run the system in an embedded environment. Without adequate knowledge about these factors it is not clear whether we are actually able to provide accurate face e…
Efficient video captioning model captures cross-modal interactions.
problem Capturing frame-level cross-modal interactions in video captioning.
method Proposes High-Order Cross-Modal Attention (HOCA) and Low-Rank HOCA.
result Low-Rank HOCA achieves state-of-the-art performance.
The paper proposes a test to assess rater accuracy while accounting for rater covariates.
problem Assessing the accuracy of raters in medical imaging and forensic studies.
method Covariate-adjusted homogeneity test to determine differences in accuracy among multiple rater groups.
result The proposed test identifies statistically significant differences among five participant groups in a face recognition study.
FairCal improves face verification accuracy while making results fairer.
problem Bias in face recognition models disproportionately affects minority groups.
method Post-training approach that builds fairer decision classifiers using pre-trained model features.
result State-of-the-art results with increased accuracy and fairness.
FlexCMH learns effective hashing codes from weakly-paired data.
problem Cross-modal hashing assumes perfect correspondence between samples, which is unrealistic.
method FlexCMH uses clustering-based matching to find potential correspondence and jointly optimizes it with hashing functions.
result FlexCMH achieves significantly better results than state-of-the-art methods.
Survey on LLMs for time series analytics across various domains.
problem Cross-modality gap between LLMs and time series data.
method Taxonomy of approaches, cross-modality strategies, and experiments on multimodal datasets.
result Effective combinations of textual data and cross-modality strategies enhance time series analytics.
Biometrics emerged as a robust solution for security systems. However, given the dissemination of biometric applications, criminals are developing techniques to circumvent them by simulating physical or behavioral traits of legal users (spoofing attacks). Despite face being a promising characteristic due to its univers…
Motivated by vision tasks such as robust face and object recognition, we consider the following general problem: given a collection of low-dimensional linear subspaces in a high-dimensional ambient (image) space and a query point (image), efficiently determine the nearest subspace to the query in ℓ1 distance. We …