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20162026
most citedMOON: A Mixed Objective Optimization Network for the Recognition of Facial Attributes

115 citations · 369 across the 19 of their papers we have counts for

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25 papers

cs.CV2026

Bias Mitigation in Face Recognition via Demographic-based Supervised Contrastive Learning

Yu Linghu, Salman Mohammad, Xinyi Zhang +1

Face recognition systems have been shown to be biased toward certain demographic groups by exhibiting different error rates across gender, age, or ethnicity. Though the imbalance o…

cs.HC2026

Detecting Drunk Driving Using Off-the-Shelf Smartwatches

Robin Deuber, Lanlan Yang, Michal Bechny +9

Alcohol-impaired driving remains a major yet preventable cause of road traffic injury and death, with many drivers underestimating their level of intoxication. Compared to in-vehic…

cs.CV2026

FAME: Feature Activation Map Explanation on Image Classification and Face Recognition

Xinyi Zhang, Manuel Günther

Deep Learning has revolutionized machine learning, reaching unprecedented levels of accuracy, but at the cost of reduced interpretability. Especially in image processing systems, d…

cs.CV2025

GHOST: Gaussian Hypothesis Open-Set Technique

Ryan Rabinowitz, Steve Cruz, Manuel Günther +1

Evaluations of large-scale recognition methods typically focus on overall performance. While this approach is common, it often fails to provide insights into performance across ind…

cs.CV2024

Score Normalization for Demographic Fairness in Face Recognition

Yu Linghu, Tiago de Freitas Pereira, Christophe Ecabert +2

Fair biometric algorithms have similar verification performance across different demographic groups given a single decision threshold. Unfortunately, for state-of-the-art face reco…

cs.CV2024

Refining Tuberculosis Detection in CXR Imaging: Addressing Bias in Deep Neural Networks via Interpretability

Özgür Acar Güler, Manuel Günther, André Anjos

Automatic classification of active tuberculosis from chest X-ray images has the potential to save lives, especially in low- and mid-income countries where skilled human experts can…

cs.CV2024

Large-Scale Evaluation of Open-Set Image Classification Techniques

Halil Bisgin, Andres Palechor, Mike Suter +1

The goal for classification is to correctly assign labels to unseen samples. However, most methods misclassify samples with unseen labels and assign them to one of the known classe…

cs.CV2024

Biased Binary Attribute Classifiers Ignore the Majority Classes

Xinyi Zhang, Johanna Sophie Bieri, Manuel Günther

To visualize the regions of interest that classifiers base their decisions on, different Class Activation Mapping (CAM) methods have been developed. However, all of these technique…

stat.ML2023

Bridging Trustworthiness and Open-World Learning: An Exploratory Neural Approach for Enhancing Interpretability, Generalization, and Robustness

Shide Du, Zihan Fang, Shiyang Lan +4

As researchers strive to narrow the gap between machine intelligence and human through the development of artificial intelligence technologies, it is imperative that we recognize t…

cs.CV2022★ 1 cited

Large-Scale Open-Set Classification Protocols for ImageNet

Andres Palechor, Annesha Bhoumik, Manuel Günther

Open-Set Classification (OSC) intends to adapt closed-set classification models to real-world scenarios, where the classifier must correctly label samples of known classes while re…

cs.CV2022

Consistency and Accuracy of CelebA Attribute Values

Haiyu Wu, Grace Bezold, Manuel Günther +3

We report the first systematic analysis of the experimental foundations of facial attribute classification. Two annotators independently assigning attribute values shows that only…

cs.CV2022★ 7 cited

Eight Years of Face Recognition Research: Reproducibility, Achievements and Open Issues

Tiago de Freitas Pereira, Dominic Schmidli, Yu Linghu +3

Automatic face recognition is a research area with high popularity. Many different face recognition algorithms have been proposed in the last thirty years of intensive research in…

cs.CV2018★ 82 cited

Reducing Network Agnostophobia

Akshay Raj Dhamija, Manuel Günther, Terrance E. Boult

Agnostophobia, the fear of the unknown, can be experienced by deep learning engineers while applying their networks to real-world applications. Unfortunately, network behavior is n…

cs.CV2018★ 71 cited

Facial Attributes: Accuracy and Adversarial Robustness

Andras Rozsa, Manuel Günther, Ethan M. Rudd +1

Facial attributes, emerging soft biometrics, must be automatically and reliably extracted from images in order to be usable in stand-alone systems. While recent methods extract fac…

cs.CV2017

Adversarial Robustness: Softmax versus Openmax

Andras Rozsa, Manuel Günther, Terrance E. Boult

Deep neural networks (DNNs) provide state-of-the-art results on various tasks and are widely used in real world applications. However, it was discovered that machine learning model…

cs.CV2017★ 36 cited

Unconstrained Face Detection and Open-Set Face Recognition Challenge

Manuel Günther, Peiyun Hu, Christian Herrmann +12

Face detection and recognition benchmarks have shifted toward more difficult environments. The challenge presented in this paper addresses the next step in the direction of automat…

cs.CV2017

Toward Open-Set Face Recognition

Manuel Günther, Steve Cruz, Ethan M. Rudd +1

Much research has been conducted on both face identification and face verification, with greater focus on the latter. Research on face identification has mostly focused on using cl…

cs.CV2016

Towards Robust Deep Neural Networks with BANG

Andras Rozsa, Manuel Gunther, Terrance E. Boult

Machine learning models, including state-of-the-art deep neural networks, are vulnerable to small perturbations that cause unexpected classification errors. This unexpected lack of…

cs.CV2016★ 56 cited

Are Accuracy and Robustness Correlated?

Andras Rozsa, Manuel Günther, Terrance E. Boult

Machine learning models are vulnerable to adversarial examples formed by applying small carefully chosen perturbations to inputs that cause unexpected classification errors. In thi…

cs.CV2016

LOTS about Attacking Deep Features

Andras Rozsa, Manuel Günther, Terrance E. Boult

Deep neural networks provide state-of-the-art performance on various tasks and are, therefore, widely used in real world applications. DNNs are becoming frequently utilized in biom…

cs.CV2016★ 1 cited

AFFACT - Alignment-Free Facial Attribute Classification Technique

Manuel Günther, Andras Rozsa, Terrance E. Boult

Facial attributes are soft-biometrics that allow limiting the search space, e.g., by rejecting identities with non-matching facial characteristics such as nose sizes or eyebrow sha…

cs.CV2016

PARAPH: Presentation Attack Rejection by Analyzing Polarization Hypotheses

Ethan M. Rudd, Manuel Gunther, Terrance E. Boult

For applications such as airport border control, biometric technologies that can process many capture subjects quickly, efficiently, with weak supervision, and with minimal discomf…

cs.CV2016

Are Facial Attributes Adversarially Robust?

Andras Rozsa, Manuel Günther, Ethan M. Rudd +1

Facial attributes are emerging soft biometrics that have the potential to reject non-matches, for example, based on mismatching gender. To be usable in stand-alone systems, facial…

cs.CV2016★ 115 cited

MOON: A Mixed Objective Optimization Network for the Recognition of Facial Attributes

Ethan Rudd, Manuel Günther, Terrance Boult

Attribute recognition, particularly facial, extracts many labels for each image. While some multi-task vision problems can be decomposed into separate tasks and stages, e.g., train…