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Performing and Detecting Backdoor Attacks on Face Recognition Algorithms

The field of biometrics, and especially face recognition, has seen a wide-spread adoption the last few years, from access control on personal devices such as phones and laptops, to automated border controls such as in airports. The stakes are increasingly ...

EPFL2024

PRO-Face C: Privacy-Preserving Recognition of Obfuscated Face via Feature Compensation

Touradj Ebrahimi, Lin Yuan, Xiao Pu, Hongbo Li, Yao Zhang

The advancement of face recognition technology has delivered substantial societal advantages. However, it has also raised global privacy concerns due to the ubiquitous collection and potential misuse of individuals' facial data. This presents a notable par ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2024

How to Boost Face Recognition with StyleGAN?

Nikita Durasov

State-of-the-art face recognition systems require vast amounts of labeled training data. Given the priority of privacy in face recognition applications, the data is limited to celebrity web crawls, which have issues such as limited numbers of identities. O ...

Ieee Computer Soc2023

AN UNSUPERVISED METHOD FOR THE DETECTION OF AND TRACKING OF TARGETS IN SPOTLIGHT MODE SAR IMAGES

Lloyd Haydn Hughes

Taking advantage of Capella's ability to dwell on a target for an extended period of time (nominally 30s) in its spotlight (SP) mode, an unsupervised methodology for detecting moving targets in this data is presented in this paper. By colourizing short seg ...

IEEE2023

A multimodal measurement of the impact of deepfakes on the ethical reasoning and affective reactions of students

Touradj Ebrahimi, Patrick Jermann, Roland John Tormey, Cécile Hardebolle, Vivek Ramachandran, Nihat Kotluk

Deepfakes - synthetic videos generated by machine learning models - are becoming increasingly sophisticated. While they have several positive use cases, their potential for harm is also high. Deepfake production involves input from multiple engineers, maki ...

2023

Recognizing distant faces

Marin Vogelsang, Lukas Vogelsang

As an 'early alerting' sense, one of the primary tasks for the human visual system is to recognize distant objects. In the specific context of facial identification, this ecologically important task has received surprisingly little attention. Most studies ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2023

Towards Visual Saliency Explanations of Face Verification

Touradj Ebrahimi, Yuhang Lu, Zewei Xu

In the past years, deep convolutional neural networks have been pushing the frontier of face recognition (FR) techniques in both verification and identification scenarios. Despite the high accuracy, they are often criticized for lacking explainability. The ...

2024

Toward responsible face datasets: modeling the distribution of a disentangled latent space for sampling face images from demographic groups

Sébastien Marcel, Christophe René Joseph Ecabert, Parsa Rahimi Noshanagh

Recently, it has been exposed that some modern facial recognition systems could discriminate specific demographic groups and may lead to unfair attention with respect to various facial attributes such as gender and origin. The main reason are the biases in ...

IEEE2023

Complex Daily Activities, Country-Level Diversity, and Smartphone Sensing: A Study in Denmark, Italy, Mongolia, Paraguay, and UK

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Karim Assi, Lakmal Buddika Meegahapola

Smartphones enable understanding human behavior with activity recognition to support peoples daily lives. Prior studies focused on using inertial sensors to detect simple activities (sitting, walking, running, etc.) and were mostly conducted in homogeneous ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2023

A Novel Framework for Assessment of Deep Face Recognition Systems in Realistic Conditions

Touradj Ebrahimi, Luca Barras, Yuhang Lu

Deep convolutional neural networks have shown remarkable results on face recognition (FR). Despite their significant progress, the performance of current face recognition techniques is often assessed in benchmarks under not always realistic conditions. The ...

2022

Towards Empathetic Open-Domain Chatbots

Yubo Xie

The research community of dialog generation has been interested in incorporating emotional information into the design of open-domain dialog systems ever since neural networks (sequence-to-sequence models in particular) were adopted for modeling dialogs. T ...

EPFL2022

Interactive Digital Engagement With Visual Artworks and Cultural Artefacts Enhances User Aesthetic Experiences in the Laboratory and Museum

Martin Vetterli, Loïc Arnaud Baboulaz, Christine Mohr, Pierre Gabioud

Digital technologies reshape the way we interact with our environment, including with artworks. Advanced computational imaging solutions allow having extremely high-resolution digital reproductions of artworks outside museums, presumably increasing artwork ...

TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC2022

Deep Learning Methods for Socially-Aware Human Trajectory Forecasting

Parth Ashit Kothari

The ability to forecast human motion, called ``human trajectory forecasting", is a critical requirement for mobility applications such as autonomous driving and robot navigation. Humans plan their path taking into account what might happen in the future. S ...

EPFL2022

Model-based 3D Face Reconstruction

Christophe René Joseph Ecabert

The human face plays an essential role in social interactions as it brings information about someone's identity, state of mind, or mood. People are, by nature, very good at catching this non-spoken information. Therefore, scientists have been interested in ...

EPFL2021

Matching Seqlets: An Unsupervised Approach for Locality Preserving Sequence Matching

Pascal Fua, Xinchao Wang

In this paper, we propose a novel unsupervised approach for sequence matching by explicitly accounting for the locality properties in the sequences. In contrast to conventional approaches that rely on frame-to-frame matching, we conduct matching using sequ ...

2021

On the Recognition Performance of BioHashing on state-of-the-art Face Recognition models

Sébastien Marcel, Hatef Otroshi Shahreza

Face recognition has become a popular authentication tool in recent years. Modern state-of-the-art (SOTA) face recognition methods rely on deep neural networks, which extract discriminative features from face images. Although these methods have high recogn ...

IEEE2021

Towards Recognizing Emotion in the Latent Space

Rayan Elalamy

Emotion recognition is usually achieved by collecting features (physiological signals, events, facial expressions, etc.) to predict an emotional ground truth. This ground truth is arguably unreliable due to its subjective nature. In this paper, we introduc ...

IEEE2021

Exploring Spatial Perspective Taking in Human-Robot Interaction

Elmira Yadollahi

Humans often rely on their perspective taking skills to thrive within the world's complex relations and connections. An adequate understanding of others' spatial perspectives can increase the quality of the interaction, not only perceptually but also cogni ...

EPFL2021

Smart Portable Pen for Continuous Monitoring of Anaesthetics in Human Serum With Machine Learning

Sandro Carrara, Mandresy Ivan Ny Hanitra, Danilo Demarchi, Simone Aiassa

Continuous monitoring of anaesthetics infusion is demanded by anaesthesiologists to help in defining personalized dose, hence reducing risks and side effects. We propose the first piece of technology tailored explicitly to close the loop between anaesthesi ...

2021

Multi-Modal Recurrent Attention Networks for Facial Expression Recognition

Jiyoung Lee, Seungryong Kim

Recent deep neural networks based methods have achieved state-of-the-art performance on various facial expression recognition tasks. Despite such progress, previous researches for facial expression recognition have mainly focused on analyzing color recordi ...

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