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Simultaneous Face Hallucination and Translation for Thermal to Visible Face Verification using Axial-GAN

arXiv 2104.06534 ↗First posted 13 Apr 2021cs.CV cs.LGcited by 8

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Abstract (arXiv)

Existing thermal-to-visible face verification approaches expect the thermal and visible face images to be of similar resolution. This is unlikely in real-world long-range surveillance systems, since humans are distant from the cameras. To address this issue, we introduce the task of thermal-to-visible face verification from low-resolution thermal images. Furthermore, we propose Axial-Generative Adversarial Network (Axial-GAN) to synthesize high-resolution visible images for matching. In the proposed approach we augment the GAN framework with axial-attention layers which leverage the recent advances in transformers for modelling long-range dependencies. We demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method by evaluating on two different thermal-visible face datasets. When compared to related state-of-the-art works, our results show significant improvements in both image quality and face verification performance, and are also much more efficient.

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Citing papers per year: 2021: 1; 2022: 5; 2023: 0; 2024: 0; 2025: 1; 2026: 1.

8 papers.

  1. 2022T2V-DDPM: Thermal to Visible Face Translation using Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Modelscited by 17
  2. 2022Beyond the Visible: A Survey on Cross-spectral Face Recognitioncited by 6
  3. 2021Heterogeneous Face Frontalization via Domain Agnostic Learningcited by 4
  4. 2022Learning Domain and Pose Invariance for Thermal-to-Visible Face Recognitioncited by 2
  5. 2022Thermal to Visible Image Synthesis under Atmospheric Turbulencecited by 1
  6. 2026MTVDiff: Multimodal Conditional Latent Diffusion for Enhanced Thermal-to-Visible Face Translationcited by 1
  7. 2022Escaping Data Scarcity for High-Resolution Heterogeneous Face Hallucinationcited by 0
  8. 2025LaPIG: Cross-Modal Generation of Paired Thermal and Visible Facial Imagescited by 0