Exploiting multi-scale parallel self-attention and local variation via dual-branch transformer-CNN structure for face super-resolution

J Shi, Y Wang, Z Yu, G Li, X Hong… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recently, deep learning technique has been widely employed to deal with face super-
resolution (FSR) problem. It aims to predict the nonlinear relationship between the low …

Hallucinating face image by regularization models in high-resolution feature space

J Shi, X Liu, Y Zong, C Qi, G Zhao - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we propose two novel regularization models in patch-wise and pixel-wise,
respectively, which are efficient to reconstruct high-resolution (HR) face image from low …

SSR2: Sparse signal recovery for single-image super-resolution on faces with extreme low resolutions

R Abiantun, F Juefei-Xu, U Prabhu, M Savvides - Pattern Recognition, 2019 - Elsevier
Automatic face recognition in the wild still suffers from low-quality, low resolution, noisy, and
occluded input images that can severely impact identification accuracy. In this paper, we …

Bionic face sketch generator

M Zhang, N Wang, Y Li, X Gao - IEEE transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Face sketch synthesis is a crucial technique in digital entertainment. However, the existing
face sketch synthesis approaches usually generate face sketches with coarse structures …

Context-patch representation learning with adaptive neighbor embedding for robust face image super-resolution

G Gao, Y Yu, H Lu, J Yang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Representation learning steered robust face image super-resolution (FSR) methods have
attracted extensive attention in the past few decades. Most previous methods were devoted …

Face hallucination via coarse-to-fine recursive kernel regression structure

J Shi, G Zhao - IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In recent years, patch-based face hallucination algorithms have attracted considerable
interest due to their effectiveness. These approaches produce a high-resolution (HR) face …

Monozygotic twin face recognition: An in-depth analysis and plausible improvements

V Sundaresan, SA Shanthi - Image and vision computing, 2021 - Elsevier
Monozygotic twins, commonly known as identical twins, share extreme facial resemblance
that they deceive the majority of the prevailing face recognition systems. Hence, the facial …

Hallucinating color face image by learning graph representation in quaternion space

L Liu, CLP Chen, S Li - IEEE transactions on cybernetics, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recently, learning-based representation techniques have been well exploited for grayscale
face image hallucination. For color images, the previous methods only handle the luminance …

Learning image profile enhancement and denoising statistics priors for single-image super-resolution

C Ren, X He, Y Pu, TQ Nguyen - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Single-image super-resolution (SR) has been widely used in computer vision applications.
The reconstruction-based SR methods are mainly based on certain prior terms to regularize …

Sequential gating ensemble network for noise robust multiscale face restoration

Z Chen, J Lin, T Zhou, F Wu - IEEE transactions on cybernetics, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Face restoration from low resolution and noise is important for applications of face analysis
recognition. However, most existing face restoration models omit the multiple scale issues in …