no code implementations • 11 Sep 2024 • Furkan Kasım, Terrance E. Boult, Rensso Mora, Bernardo Biesseck, Rafael Ribeiro, Jan Schlueter, Tomáš Repák, Rafael Henrique Vareto, David Menotti, William Robson Schwartz, Manuel Günther
In the current landscape of biometrics and surveillance, the ability to accurately recognize faces in uncontrolled settings is paramount.
2 code implementations • 1 Nov 2023 • Rafael Henrique Vareto, Yu Linghu, Terrance E. Boult, William Robson Schwartz, Manuel Günther
MEL modifies the traditional Cross-Entropy loss in favor of increasing the entropy for negative samples and attaches a penalty to known target classes in pursuance of gallery specialization.
no code implementations • 26 Jul 2023 • Gabriel Bertocco, Fernanda Andaló, Terrance E. Boult, Anderson Rocha
Fully-unsupervised Person and Vehicle Re-Identification have received increasing attention due to their broad applicability in surveillance, forensics, event understanding, and smart cities, without requiring any manual annotation.
no code implementations • 11 Feb 2023 • Wes Robbins, Gabriel Bertocco, Terrance E. Boult
In unconstrained scenarios, face recognition and person re-identification are subject to distortions such as motion blur, atmospheric turbulence, or upsampling artifacts.
no code implementations • 19 Jan 2022 • Touqeer Ahmad, Mohsen Jafarzadeh, Akshay Raj Dhamija, Ryan Rabinowitz, Steve Cruz, Chunchun Li, Terrance E. Boult
Specifically, we demonstrate that running inference on the center crop of an image is not always the best as important discriminatory information may be cropped-off.
1 code implementation • 15 Feb 2021 • Akshay Raj Dhamija, Touqeer Ahmad, Jonathan Schwan, Mohsen Jafarzadeh, Chunchun Li, Terrance E. Boult
This paper identifies the flaws in existing open-world learning approaches and attempts to provide a complete picture in the form of \textbf{True Open-World Learning}.
1 code implementation • 25 Nov 2020 • Mohsen Jafarzadeh, Akshay Raj Dhamija, Steve Cruz, Chunchun Li, Touqeer Ahmad, Terrance E. Boult
Open-world learning is related to but also distinct from a multitude of other learning problems and this paper briefly analyzes the key differences between a wide range of problems including incremental learning, generalized novelty discovery, and generalized zero-shot learning.
1 code implementation • 11 Nov 2020 • Mohsen Jafarzadeh, Touqeer Ahmad, Akshay Raj Dhamija, Chunchun Li, Steve Cruz, Terrance E. Boult
However, during operations, we cannot directly assess accuracy as there are no labels.
1 code implementation • 17 Apr 2020 • Andras Rozsa, Zheng Zhong, Terrance E. Boult
Regarding image forensics, researchers have proposed various approaches to detect and/or localize manipulations, such as splices.
no code implementations • 11 Aug 2019 • Aurobrata Ghosh, Zheng Zhong, Steve Cruz, Subbu Veeravasarapu, Terrance E. Boult, Maneesh Singh
We propose an innovative method to formulate the issue of localizing manipulated regions in an image as a deep representation learning problem using the Information Bottleneck (IB), which has recently gained popularity as a framework for interpreting deep neural networks.
no code implementations • 7 Aug 2019 • Andras Rozsa, Terrance E. Boult
On the CIFAR-10 dataset, our approach improves the average accuracy against the six white-box adversarial attacks to 73. 5% from 41. 8% achieved by adversarial training via PGD.
no code implementations • 27 Jun 2019 • Aurobrata Ghosh, Zheng Zhong, Terrance E. Boult, Maneesh Singh
It comprises a novel approach for learning rich filters and for suppressing image-edges.
4 code implementations • NeurIPS 2018 • 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.
no code implementations • 4 Jan 2018 • Andras Rozsa, Manuel Günther, Ethan M. Rudd, Terrance E. Boult
Facial attributes, emerging soft biometrics, must be automatically and reliably extracted from images in order to be usable in stand-alone systems.
no code implementations • 23 Aug 2017 • Žiga Emeršič, Dejan Štepec, Vitomir Štruc, Peter Peer, Anjith George, Adil Ahmad, Elshibani Omar, Terrance E. Boult, Reza Safdari, Yuxiang Zhou, Stefanos Zafeiriou, Dogucan Yaman, Fevziye I. Eyiokur, Hazim K. Ekenel
In this paper we present the results of the Unconstrained Ear Recognition Challenge (UERC), a group benchmarking effort centered around the problem of person recognition from ear images captured in uncontrolled conditions.
no code implementations • 8 Aug 2017 • Manuel Günther, Peiyun Hu, Christian Herrmann, Chi Ho Chan, Min Jiang, Shufan Yang, Akshay Raj Dhamija, Deva Ramanan, Jürgen Beyerer, Josef Kittler, Mohamad Al Jazaery, Mohammad Iqbal Nouyed, Guodong Guo, Cezary Stankiewicz, Terrance E. Boult
Face detection and recognition benchmarks have shifted toward more difficult environments.
no code implementations • 5 Aug 2017 • 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.
no code implementations • 3 May 2017 • Manuel Günther, Steve Cruz, Ethan M. Rudd, Terrance E. Boult
In this paper, we address the widespread misconception that thresholding verification-like scores is a good way to solve the open-set face identification problem, by formulating an open-set face identification protocol and evaluating different strategies for assessing similarity.
no code implementations • 1 Dec 2016 • 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.
no code implementations • 18 Nov 2016 • Andras Rozsa, Manuel Günther, Terrance E. Boult
We demonstrate that iterative LOTS is very effective and show that systems utilizing deep features are easier to attack than the end-to-end network.
no code implementations • 18 Nov 2016 • Manuel Günther, Andras Rozsa, Terrance E. Boult
Using an ensemble of three ResNets, we obtain the new state-of-the-art facial attribute classification error of 8. 00% on the aligned images of the CelebA dataset.
no code implementations • 21 Oct 2016 • Khudran Alzhrani, Ethan M. Rudd, Terrance E. Boult, C. Edward Chow
To analyze the ACESS system, we constructed a novel dataset, containing formerly classified paragraphs from diplomatic cables made public by the WikiLeaks organization.
no code implementations • 14 Oct 2016 • Andras Rozsa, Manuel Günther, Terrance E. Boult
In this paper, we perform experiments on various adversarial example generation approaches with multiple deep convolutional neural networks including Residual Networks, the best performing models on ImageNet Large-Scale Visual Recognition Challenge 2015.
no code implementations • 13 Oct 2016 • Abigail Graese, Andras Rozsa, Terrance E. Boult
Deep neural networks are facing a potential security threat from adversarial examples, inputs that look normal but cause an incorrect classification by the deep neural network.
no code implementations • 13 Jun 2016 • Pedro Ribeiro Mendes Júnior, Terrance E. Boult, Jacques Wainer, Anderson Rocha
In the open-set scenario, however, a test sample can belong to none of the known classes and the classifier must properly reject it by classifying it as unknown.
no code implementations • 18 May 2016 • Andras Rozsa, Manuel Günther, Ethan M. Rudd, Terrance E. Boult
We show that FFA generates more adversarial examples than other related algorithms, and that DCNNs for certain attributes are generally robust to adversarial inputs, while DCNNs for other attributes are not.
no code implementations • 10 May 2016 • Ethan M. Rudd, Manuel Gunther, Terrance E. Boult
Thus, there is great demand for an effective and low cost system capable of rejecting such attacks. To this end we introduce PARAPH -- a novel hardware extension that exploits different measurements of light polarization to yield an image space in which presentation media are readily discernible from Bona Fide facial characteristics.
no code implementations • 5 May 2016 • Andras Rozsa, Ethan M. Rudd, Terrance E. Boult
Finally, we demonstrate on LeNet and GoogLeNet that fine-tuning with a diverse set of hard positives improves the robustness of these networks compared to training with prior methods of generating adversarial images.
no code implementations • 19 Mar 2016 • Ethan M. Rudd, Andras Rozsa, Manuel Günther, Terrance E. Boult
While machine learning offers promising potential for increasingly autonomous solutions with improved generalization to new malware types, both at the network level and at the host level, our findings suggest that several flawed assumptions inherent to most recognition algorithms prevent a direct mapping between the stealth malware recognition problem and a machine learning solution.
no code implementations • 19 Jun 2015 • Ethan M. Rudd, Lalit P. Jain, Walter J. Scheirer, Terrance E. Boult
It is often desirable to be able to recognize when inputs to a recognition function learned in a supervised manner correspond to classes unseen at training time.
no code implementations • 27 Mar 2013 • Michelle Baker, Terrance E. Boult
We define a computationally equivalent subgraph of a Bayesian network.