SPOT-Face: Forensic Face Identification using Attention Guided Optimal Transport
Vision Intelligence and Machine Learning (VIML) Group（视觉智能与机器学习组）；School of Computing and Electrical Engineering (SCEE)（计算与电气工程学院）；Indian Institute of Technology Mandi (IIT Mandi)（印度理工学院曼迪分校）
Person identification in forensic investigations becomes very challenging when common identification means for DNA (i.e., hair strands, soft tissue) are not available. Current methods utilize deep learning methods for face recognition. However, these methods lack effective mechanisms to model cross-domain structural correspondence between two different forensic modalities. In this paper, we introduce a SPOT-Face, a superpixel graph-based framework designed for cross-domain forensic face identification of victims using their skeleton and sketch images. Our unified framework involves constructing a superpixel-based graph from an image and then using different graph neural networks(GNNs) backbones to extract the embeddings of these graphs, while cross-domain correspondence is established through attention-guided optimal transport mechanism. We have evaluated our proposed framework on two publicly available dataset: IIT\_Mandi\_S2F (S2F) and CUFS. Extensive experiments were conducted to evaluate our proposed framework. The experimental results show significant improvement in identification metrics ( i.e., Recall, mAP) over existing graph-based baselines. Furthermore, our framework demonstrates to be highly effective for matching skulls and sketches to faces in forensic investigations.
Bridging the Modality Gap in Forensic Image Retrieval
Advanced Technologies Application Center (CENATAV)（先进技术应用中心（CENATAV））；Centro de Sistemas Complejos, Facultad de Física, Universidad de La Habana（哈瓦那大学物理学院复杂系统中心）
LaP-Forensics: Latent-Pixel Consistency Guided Multimodal Reasoning for Deepfake Detection
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University（香港理工大学）；University College London（伦敦大学学院）；Tsinghua University（清华大学）；Sun Yat-sen University（中山大学）；National University of Singapore（新加坡国立大学）
Visually realistic GAN-generated images have recently emerged as an important misinformation threat. Research has shown that these synthetic images contain forensic traces that are readily identifiable by forensic detectors. Unfortunately, these detectors are built upon neural networks, which are vulnerable to recently developed adversarial attacks. In this paper, we propose a new anti-forensic attack capable of fooling GAN-generated image detectors. Our attack uses an adversarially trained generator to synthesize traces that these detectors associate with real images. Furthermore, we propose …
Face sketches are able to capture the spatial topology of a face while lacking some facial attributes such as race, skin, or hair color. Existing sketch-photo recognition approaches have mostly ignored the importance of facial attributes. In this paper, we propose a new loss function, called attribute-centered loss, to train a Deep Coupled Convolutional Neural Network (DCCNN) for the facial attribute guided sketch to photo matching. Specifically, an attribute-centered loss is proposed which learns several distinct centers, in a shared embedding space, for photos and sketches with different com…
University of Science and Technology of China（中国科学技术大学）
Local feature matching aims at finding correspondences between a pair of images. Although current detector-free methods leverage Transformer architecture to obtain an impressive performance, few works consider maintaining local consistency. Meanwhile, most methods struggle with large scale variations. To deal with the above issues, we propose Adaptive Spot-Guided Transformer (ASTR) for local feature matching, which jointly models the local consistency and scale variations in a unified coarse-to-fine architecture. The proposed ASTR enjoys several merits. First, we design a spot-guided aggregati…
Recently end-to-end scene text spotting has become a popular research topic due to its advantages of global optimization and high maintainability in real applications. Most methods attempt to develop various region of interest (RoI) operations to concatenate the detection part and the sequence recognition part into a two-stage text spotting framework. However, in such framework, the recognition part is highly sensitive to the detected results (e.g.), the compactness of text contours). To address this problem, in this paper, we propose a novel Mask AttentioN Guided One-stage text spotting frame…
Attention-Guided Efficientnet Architecture For Precise Criminal Identification in Surveillance Images
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering (UVCE), Bangalore University, CMR Institute of Technology, Bengaluru, India（计算机科学与工程系，Visvesvaraya工程学院（UVCE），班加罗尔大学，CMR技术学院，班加罗尔，印度）；Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering (UVCE), Bangalore University, Bengaluru, India（计算机科学与工程系，Visvesvaraya工程学院（UVCE），班加罗尔大学，班加罗尔，印度）
Training data plays an essential role in modern applications of machine learning. However, gathering labeled training data is time-consuming. Therefore, labeling is often outsourced to less experienced users, or completely automated. This can introduce errors, which compromise valuable training data, and lead to suboptimal training results. We thus propose a novel approach that uses the power of pretrained classifiers to visually guide users to noisy labels, and let them interactively check error candidates, to iteratively improve the training data set. To systematically investigate training d…
Generalizable Synthetic Image Detection via Language-guided Contrastive Learning
School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China（电子科技大学计算机科学与工程学院）；State Key Laboratory of Internet of Things for Smart City（智慧城市物联网国家重点实验室）；Department of Computer and Information Science, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Macau（澳门大学计算机与信息科学系）；Faculty of Applied Sciences, Macao Polytechnic University（澳门 polytechnic 大学应用科学系）
McGill University（麦吉尔大学）；The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen（香港中文大学（深圳））；Shenzhen Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics for Society（深圳人工智能与机器人研究院）
In recent years, self-supervised denoising methods have shown impressive performance, which circumvent painstaking collection procedure of noisy-clean image pairs in supervised denoising methods and boost denoising applicability in real world. One of well-known self-supervised denoising strategies is the blind-spot training scheme. However, a few works attempt to improve blind-spot based self-denoiser in the aspect of network architecture. In this paper, we take an intuitive view of blind-spot strategy and consider its process of using neighbor pixels to predict manipulated pixels as an inpain…
SPOT-Occ: Sparse Prototype-guided Transformer for Camera-based 3D Occupancy Prediction
Artificial Intelligence Thrust, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)（香港科学与技术大学人工智能方向（广州））；Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology（香港科学与技术大学计算机科学与工程系）
We develop a new algorithm to perform facial reconstruction from a given skull. This technique has forensic application in helping the identification of skeletal remains when other information is unavailable. Unlike most existing strategies that directly reconstruct the face from the skull, we utilize a database of portrait photos to create many face candidates, then perform a superimposition to get a well matched face, and then revise it according to the superimposition. To support this pipeline, we build an effective autoencoder for image-based facial reconstruction, and a generative model f…
University of Washington（华盛顿大学）；University of Science and Technology, University of Danang（岘港大学科技大学）；Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)（电子与电信研究所（ETRI））
Gait recognition, which refers to the recognition or identification of a person based on their body shape and walking styles, derived from video data captured from a distance, is widely used in crime prevention, forensic identification, and social security. However, to the best of our knowledge, most of the existing methods use appearance, posture and temporal feautures without considering a learned temporal attention mechanism for global and local information fusion. In this paper, we propose a novel gait recognition framework, called Temporal Attention and Keypoint-guided Embedding (GaitTAKE…
VAAS: Vision-Attention Anomaly Scoring for Image Manipulation Detection in Digital Forensics
Forensics and Security Research Group, South East Technological University（法医与安全研究组，南东技术大学）；Security Research Group, School of Computer Science, University College Dublin（安全研究组，计算机科学学院，都柏林大学学院）
3D-Guided Scalable Flow Matching for Generating Volumetric Tissue Spatial Transcriptomics from Serial Histology
Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge（剑桥干细胞研究所，剑桥大学）；Cambridge Center for AI in Medicine, University of Cambridge（剑桥人工智能医学中心，剑桥大学）；Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge（剑桥大学医学系）；Computer Science Department, University of Oxford（牛津大学计算机科学系）；Computer Science Department, University of Helsinki（赫尔辛基大学计算机科学系）；Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, University of Helsinki（芬兰分子医学研究所，赫尔辛基大学）；Wellcome Sanger Institute（沃森桑格研究所）
Jadavpur University（贾达布尔大学）；Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur（印度理工学院卡拉格普尔分校）；Indian Statistical Institute（印度统计研究所）
Offline Signature Verification (OSV) is a fundamental biometric task across various forensic, commercial and legal applications. The underlying task at hand is to carefully model fine-grained features of the signatures to distinguish between genuine and forged ones, which differ only in minute deformities. This makes OSV more challenging compared to other verification problems. In this work, we propose a two-stage deep learning framework that leverages self-supervised representation learning as well as metric learning for writer-independent OSV. First, we train an image reconstruction network …
United International University（联合国际大学）；Stamford University Bangladesh（孟加拉国斯坦福德大学）
Numerous diseases cause severe economic loss in the apple production-based industry. Early disease identification in apple leaves can help to stop the spread of infections and provide better productivity. Therefore, it is crucial to study the identification and classification of different apple foliar diseases. Various traditional machine learning and deep learning methods have addressed and investigated this issue. However, it is still challenging to classify these diseases because of their complex background, variation in the diseased spot in the images, and the presence of several symptoms …
A Novel Evolutionary Method for Automated Skull-Face Overlay in Computer-Aided Craniofacial Superimposition
Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, University of Granada（计算机科学与人工智能系，格拉纳达大学）；Andalusian Research Institute in Data Science and Computational Intelligence, University of Granada（数据科学与计算智能安达卢西亚研究机构，格拉纳达大学）；Panacea Cooperative Research S. Coop.（Panacea合作研究公司）；Department of Software Engineering, University of Granada（软件工程系，格拉纳达大学）
