2022-06-03 更新
Median Pixel Difference Convolutional Network for Robust Face Recognition
Authors:Jiehua Zhang, Zhuo Su, Li Liu
Face recognition is one of the most active tasks in computer vision and has been widely used in the real world. With great advances made in convolutional neural networks (CNN), lots of face recognition algorithms have achieved high accuracy on various face datasets. However, existing face recognition algorithms based on CNNs are vulnerable to noise. Noise corrupted image patterns could lead to false activations, significantly decreasing face recognition accuracy in noisy situations. To equip CNNs with built-in robustness to noise of different levels, we proposed a Median Pixel Difference Convolutional Network (MeDiNet) by replacing some traditional convolutional layers with the proposed novel Median Pixel Difference Convolutional Layer (MeDiConv) layer. The proposed MeDiNet integrates the idea of traditional multiscale median filtering with deep CNNs. The MeDiNet is tested on the four face datasets (LFW, CA-LFW, CP-LFW, and YTF) with versatile settings on blur kernels, noise intensities, scales, and JPEG quality factors. Extensive experiments show that our MeDiNet can effectively remove noisy pixels in the feature map and suppress the negative impact of noise, leading to achieving limited accuracy loss under these practical noises compared with the standard CNN under clean conditions.
PDF Accepted by BMVC2021
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Simulated Adversarial Testing of Face Recognition Models
Authors:Nataniel Ruiz, Adam Kortylewski, Weichao Qiu, Cihang Xie, Sarah Adel Bargal, Alan Yuille, Stan Sclaroff
Most machine learning models are validated and tested on fixed datasets. This can give an incomplete picture of the capabilities and weaknesses of the model. Such weaknesses can be revealed at test time in the real world. The risks involved in such failures can be loss of profits, loss of time or even loss of life in certain critical applications. In order to alleviate this issue, simulators can be controlled in a fine-grained manner using interpretable parameters to explore the semantic image manifold. In this work, we propose a framework for learning how to test machine learning algorithms using simulators in an adversarial manner in order to find weaknesses in the model before deploying it in critical scenarios. We apply this method in a face recognition setup. We show that certain weaknesses of models trained on real data can be discovered using simulated samples. Using our proposed method, we can find adversarial synthetic faces that fool contemporary face recognition models. This demonstrates the fact that these models have weaknesses that are not measured by commonly used validation datasets. We hypothesize that this type of adversarial examples are not isolated, but usually lie in connected spaces in the latent space of the simulator. We present a method to find these adversarial regions as opposed to the typical adversarial points found in the adversarial example literature.
PDF Published at IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2022
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