Explainable Face Recognition is gaining growing attention as the use of the technology is gaining ground in security-critical applications. Understanding why two face images are matched or not matched by a given face ...
Explainable Face Recognition is gaining growing attention as the use of the technology is gaining ground in security-critical applications. Understanding why two face images are matched or not matched by a given face recognition system is important to operators, users, and developers to increase trust, accountability, develop better systems, and highlight unfair behavior. In this work, we propose a similarity score argument backpropagation (xSSAB) approach that supports or opposes the face-matching decision to visualize spatial maps that indicate similar and dissimilar areas as interpreted by the underlying FR model. Furthermore, we present Patch-LFW, a new explainable face verification benchmark that enables along with a novel evaluation protocol, the first quantitative evaluation of the validity of similarity and dissimilarity maps in explainable face recognition approaches. We compare our efficient approach to state-of-the-art approaches demonstrating a superior trade-off between efficiency and performance. The code as well as the proposed Patch-LFW is publicly available at: https://***/marcohuber/xSSAB.
The paper is devoted to the efficiency analysis of the machine learning methods for gesture recognition, which are applied to the surface double-channel electromyography data. The comparative analysis was conducted fo...
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Face Image Quality Assessment (FIQA) techniques have seen steady improvements over recent years, but their performance still deteriorates if the input face samples are not properly aligned. This alignment sensitivity ...
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Face Image Quality Assessment (FIQA) techniques have seen steady improvements over recent years, but their performance still deteriorates if the input face samples are not properly aligned. This alignment sensitivity ...
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(数字)9798350354478
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(纸本)9798350354485
Face Image Quality Assessment (FIQA) techniques have seen steady improvements over recent years, but their performance still deteriorates if the input face samples are not properly aligned. This alignment sensitivity comes from the fact that most FIQA techniques are trained or designed using a specific face alignment procedure. If the alignment technique changes, the performance of most existing FIQA techniques quickly becomes suboptimal. To address this problem, we present in this paper a novel knowledge distillation approach, termed AI-KD that can extend on any existing FIQA technique, improving its robustness to alignment variations and, in turn, performance with different alignment procedures. To validate the proposed distillation approach, we conduct comprehensive experiments on 6 face datasets with 4 recent face recognition models and in comparison to 7 state-of-the-art FIQA techniques. Our results show that AI-KD consistently improves performance of the initial FIQA techniques not only with misaligned samples, but also with properly aligned facial images. Furthermore, it leads to a new state-of-the-art, when used with a competitive initial FIQA approach. The code for AI-KD is made publicly available from: https://***/LSIbabnikz/AI-KD.
Estimation of importance for considered features is an important issue for any knowledge exploration process and it can be executed by a variety of approaches. In the research reported in this study, the primary aim w...
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Estimation of importance for considered features is an important issue for any knowledge exploration process and it can be executed by a variety of approaches. In the research reported in this study, the primary aim was the development of a methodology for creating attribute rankings. Based on the properties of the greedy algorithm for inducing decision rules, a new application of this algorithm has been proposed. Instead of constructing a single ordering of features, attributes were weighted multiple times. The input datasets were discretised with several algorithms representing supervised and unsupervised discretisation approaches. Each resulting discrete data variant was exploited to construct a ranking of attributes. The effectiveness of the obtained rankings was confirmed through a rule filtering process governed by weighted attributes. The methodology was applied to the stylometric task of authorship attribution. The experimental outcomes demonstrate the value of the proposed research method, as it generally led to improved predictions while taking into account a noticeably decreased sets of attributes and decision rules.
Deep generative models have recently presented impressive results in generating realistic face images of random synthetic identities. To generate multiple samples of a certain synthetic identity, previous works propos...
Deep generative models have recently presented impressive results in generating realistic face images of random synthetic identities. To generate multiple samples of a certain synthetic identity, previous works proposed to disentangle the latent space of GANs by incorporating additional supervision or regularization, enabling the manipulation of certain attributes. Others proposed to disentangle specific factors in unconditional pretrained GANs latent spaces to control their output, which also requires supervision by attribute classifiers. Moreover, these attributes are entangled in GAN’s latent space, making it difficult to manipulate them without affecting the identity information. We propose in this work a framework, ExFaceGAN, to disentangle identity information in pretrained GANs latent spaces, enabling the generation of multiple samples of any synthetic identity. Given a reference latent code of any synthetic image and latent space of pretrained GAN, our ExFaceGAN learns an identity directional boundary that disentangles the latent space into two sub-spaces, with latent codes of samples that are either identity similar or dissimilar to a reference image. By sampling from each side of the boundary, our ExFaceGAN can generate multiple samples of synthetic identity without the need for designing a dedicated architecture or supervision from attribute classifiers. We demonstrate the generalizability and effectiveness of ExFaceGAN by integrating it into learned latent spaces of three SOTA GAN approaches. As an example of the practical benefit of our ExFaceGAN, we empirically prove that data generated by ExFaceGAN can be successfully used to train face recognition models (https://***/fdbtrs/ExFaceGAN).
This article examines the current state of the intelligent building monitoring system created for the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC) in the framework of the OPERE project and proposes a modification based ...
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(数字)9798350366488
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(纸本)9798350366495
This article examines the current state of the intelligent building monitoring system created for the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC) in the framework of the OPERE project and proposes a modification based on the Fog Computing paradigm. The study is developed in the context of the European regulations for the energy efficiency of facilities and the reduction of greenhouse gases. The current system implements the data processing in DADIS modules, developed by this research group for the acquisition and flexible transmission of information. These modules provide the information to the monitoring system which offers functionalities such as energy consumption dashboards, configurable operation schedules and ad hoc data visualization. However, the limitations of the current system include the difficulty in scaling the processing of the acquired information and database queries. The described upgrade proposes the extensive use of MQTT to standardize communications and allow the development of stand-alone applications to scale processing. The same architecture facilitates the incorporation of Big Data infrastructures that would solve even more complex query problems than those addressed in this scenario.
Synthetic data is emerging as a substitute for authentic data to solve ethical and legal challenges in handling authentic face data. The current models can create real-looking face images of people who do not exist. H...
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Face recognition (FR) systems continue to spread in our daily lives with an increasing demand for higher explainability and interpretability of FR systems that are mainly based on deep learning. While bias across demo...
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In recent years, advances in deep learning techniques and large-scale identity-labeled datasets have enabled facial recognition algorithms to rapidly gain performance. However, due to privacy issues, ethical concerns,...
In recent years, advances in deep learning techniques and large-scale identity-labeled datasets have enabled facial recognition algorithms to rapidly gain performance. However, due to privacy issues, ethical concerns, and regulations governing the processing, transmission, and storage of biometric samples, several publicly available face image datasets are being withdrawn by their creators. The reason is that these datasets are mostly crawled from the web with the possibility that not all users had properly consented to processing their biometric data. To mitigate this problem, synthetic face images from generative approaches are motivated to substitute the need for authentic face images to train and test face recognition. In this work, we investigate both the relation between synthetic face image data and the generator authentic training data and the relation between the authentic data and the synthetic data in general under two aspects, i.e. the general image quality and face image quality. The first term refers to perceived image quality and the second measures the utility of a face image for automatic face recognition algorithms. To further quantify these relations, we build the analyses under two terms denoted as the dissimilarity in quality values expressing the general difference in quality distributions and the dissimilarity in quality diversity expressing the diversity in the quality values.
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