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Our face recognition methods achieve high accuracy on competitive public benchmarks through the use of universal representation learning techniques that leverage very large-scale datasets, with robustness to variations such as occlusions, blur, lighting or accessories. We develop methods in long-tail recognition that account for the low sample diversity of most identities in face recognition datasets. We also develop methods in disentangled representation learning, domain adaptation and domain generalization that leverage large-scale unlabeled datasets to ensure that label biases in training datasets do not impact the accuracy of our face recognition across demographic factors like ethnicity, age and gender.
Team Members: Ziyu Jiang, Turgun Kashgari
Overfitting to the source domain is a common issue in gradient-based training of deep neural networks. To compensate for the over-parameterized models, numerous regularization techniques have been introduced such as those based on dropout. While these methods achieve significant improvements on classical
Convolutional Neural Networks have achieved remarkable success in face recognition, in part due to the abundant availability of data. However, the data used for training CNNs is often imbalanced. Prior works largely focus on the long-tailed nature of face datasets in data volume per identity or focus
Face recognition models trained under the assumption of identical training and test distributions often suffer from poor generalization when faced with unknown variations, such as a novel ethnicity or unpredictable individual make-ups during test time. In this paper, we introduce a novel cross-domain
While deep face recognition has benefited significantly from large-scale labeled data, current research is focused on leveraging unlabeled data to further boost performance, reducing the cost of human annotation. Prior work has mostly been in controlled settings, where the labeled and unlabeled data
Recognizing wild faces is extremely hard as they appear with all kinds of variations. Traditional methods either train with specifically annotated variation data from target domains, or by introducing unlabeled target variation data to adapt from the training data. Instead, we propose a universal representation
Despite the large volume of face recognition datasets, there is a significant portion of subjects, of which the samples are insufficient and thus under-represented. Ignoring such significant portion results in insufficient training data. Training with under-represented data leads to biased classifiers
Unsupervised domain adaptation is an attractive avenue to enhance the performance of deep neural networks in a target domain, using labels only from a source domain. However, two predominant methods along this line, namely, domain divergence reduction learning and semi-supervised learning, are not readily
