arXiv:2605.22311v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Identity-conditioned diffusion models enable high-quality and identity-consistent face generation, but they also raise severe privacy concerns, as...
By Jose Edgar Hernandez Cancino Estrada, Mauro D\'iaz Lupone, \v{Z}iga Emer\v{s}i\v{c}, Vitomir \v{S}truc, Peter Peer, Darian Toma\v{s}evi\'c
arXiv:2511.05575v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Diffusion-based approaches have recently achieved strong results in face swapping, offering improved visual quality over traditional GAN-based meth...
By Weston Bondurant, Arkaprava Sinha, Hieu Le, Srijan Das, Stephanie Schuckers
The paper introduces Semantic Boundary Predictor (SBP), an inference‑time framework that improves demographic fairness in synthetic face generation by applying a single, one‑shot intervention during reverse denoising. SBP learns linear semantic boundaries from late‑stage latent representations and applies them only at the initial noisy latent, leaving the rest of the diffusion process unchanged. Experiments on CelebA‑HQ show significant reductions in fairness disparity—98% for gender, 95% for binary race, and 15% for four‑class race—while preserving image quality across demographic groups.
By Subir Kumar Parida, Rajbabu Velmurugan, Ketan Kotwal, R. S. Sengar, Swati Hiremath
arXiv:2607. 28936v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Facial biometric identification relies on the distinctiveness of user attributes within a high-dimensional embedding space.
By Omid Ahmadieh, Nima Karimian
arXiv:2606. 11615v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The widespread adoption of face recognition (FR) technologies raises serious privacy concerns, as facial data can be exploited without consent.
By Omid Ahmadieh, Nima Karimian
arXiv:2505.23462v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Blind face restoration from low-quality images is a challenging task that requires not only high-fidelity image reconstruction, but also preservati...
By Runyi Li, Bin Chen, Jian Zhang, Radu Timofte
ScoreMix is a self‑contained synthetic data generation method that improves recognition tasks by mixing class‑conditioned scores along reverse diffusion trajectories, thereby creating hard synthetic samples without external resources. The approach shows that selecting classes far apart in the discriminator’s embedding space yields larger performance gains, up to 3% more improvement than proximity‑based selection. Across eight public face recognition benchmarks, ScoreMix boosts accuracy by up to 7 percentage points, demonstrating robustness and practicality without hyperparameter tuning.
By Parsa Rahimi, Sebastien Marcel
arXiv:2407. 13922v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Face recognition (FR) systems are widely deployed in critical applications, making their reliability and robustness across diverse populations and conditions essential.
By Guruprasad Viswanathan Ramesh, Ashish Hooda, Shimaa Ahmed, Harrison J Rosenberg, Ramya Korlakai Vinayak, Kassem Fawaz
arXiv:2608. 20336v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Identity-preserving image generation becomes increasingly unreliable when a scene must contain many specified people.
By Hengyuan Xu, Qixun Wang, Yiji Cheng, Miles Yang, Zhao Zhong, Wei Cheng, Xingjun Ma, Yu-gang Jiang
arXiv:2511. 18050v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Diffusion transformers have recently delivered strong text-to-image generation around 1K resolution, but we show that extending them to native 4K across diverse aspect ratios exposes a tightly coupled failure mode spanning positional encoding, VAE compression, and optimization.
By Tian Ye, Song Fei, Lei Zhu
Identity-preserving image generation becomes increasingly unreliable when a scene must contain many specified people. Beyond retaining each identity, the model must bind every reference to a distinct person and location, while training-time identity losses must establish correspondence among several noisy predicted faces.
arXiv:2609.00411v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Modern face recognition (FR) owes much of its success to deep neural networks that learn to extract compact identity embeddings from face images. These...
By Fizza Rubab, Yiying Tong, Arun Ross