Plastic Surgery

Retroauricular robotic thyroidectomy with concomitant neck-lift surgery.

BACKGROUND: Robotic-assisted thyroid surgery using a retroauricular approach was reported as a novel remote access technique for hemithyroidectomy. We report our experience with this remote access technique using a single incision in the retroauricular crease and occipital hairline incision. For the first time, we show additional neck-lift surgery performed concomitantly to achieve better cosmetic...

Far from the Crowd: Scalable Self-Supervised Learning via Geographic Isolation

Self-supervised pretraining on remote sensing imagery typically treats all samples as equally informative, despite large variability in geographic and visual structure. We propose a curriculum learning strategy for self-supervised Earth observation that ranks samples by geographic isolation, a label-free proxy derived entirely from geolocation metadata already present in geospatial datasets, requi...

Detecting Clear Contact Lenses for Iris Recognition: A Two-Stage Mask-Guided Attention Approach

This work focuses on the impact and detection of clear contact lenses in the context of iris recognition. While the detection of cosmetic or patterned...

ChronoVision: Temporal Reasoning via Latent State Reconstruction

Multimodal large language models excel at passive perception but struggle with complex visual cognitive tasks requiring multi-step temporal reasoning....

Localize, Don't Beautify: Client-Side Control of Image-Editing APIs for Cosmetic Surgery Previews

Ask a commercial image editor to preview a cosmetic procedure and it will often change more of the face than the request names: a nose edit can also s...

Explorative Modeling: Unlocking a Third Pretraining Axis and End-to-End Generation

The deep learning revolution, kicked off by AlexNet, taught us that end-to-end training beats decomposing a problem into hand-designed stages. Generat...

SGN: A Similarity-based Generative Network for Data Generation under Distribution Shift

Generative models trained on a source domain often produce samples that are poorly aligned with shifted target domains, limiting their effectiveness f...

Metrics or Mirage? An Audit of Evaluation Inconsistencies in Colonoscopy Polyp Segmentation Benchmarks

Progress in colonoscopy polyp segmentation is routinely reported through leaderboard comparisons on a small set of public benchmarks. We argue that th...

Anchoring on Reality: Breaking the Pseudo-Target Ceiling in Makeup Transfer

Makeup transfer applies a reference cosmetic style to a source face while preserving its identity and geometry. However, this task is severely hindere...

Retention, not flux: endpoint confounding caps computational prediction of peptide skin penetration, with a delivery-aware reframing

Bioactive peptides are now central to cosmetic and dermatological actives, yet predicting whether a given sequence will reach its site of action in sk...

FLUX3D: High-Fidelity 3D Gaussian Generation with Diffusion-Aligned Sparse Representation

Sparse voxel representation has emerged as a scalable foundation for image-to-3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) generation, yet current methods struggle to...

Beyond the Current Observation: Evaluating Multimodal Large Language Models in Controllable Non-Markov Games

Deploying multimodal foundation models as closed-loop policies increasingly requires conditioning actions on observations that are no longer visible. ...

Progressively Texture-Aware Diffusion for Contrast-Enhanced Sparse-View CT

Diffusion-based sparse-view CT (SVCT) imaging has achieved remarkable advancements in recent years, thanks to its more stable generative capability. H...

From Metabolomics to Function: Ranking Plant Stem Cell Metabolomes for Use in Health and Cosmetics

Background: Plants produce diverse metabolites with potential benefits for human health. However, the metabolomes of plant callus cultures-cell cultur...

GRD-Net: Generative-Reconstructive-Discriminative Anomaly Detection with Region of Interest Attention Module

Anomaly detection is nowadays increasingly used in industrial applications and processes. One of the main fields of the appliance is the visual inspec...

Can a Teenager Fool an AI? Evaluating Low-Cost Cosmetic Attacks on Age Estimation Systems

Age estimation systems are increasingly deployed as gatekeepers for age-restricted online content, yet their robustness to cosmetic modifications has ...

Scalp microbiome differences in subjects with self-reported hair loss: A quantitative approach to microbial dysbiosis

Objective: Hair loss is a common issue that affects a large proportion of the population, leading to lower self-confidence and quality of life. Microb...

Is Hierarchical Quantization Essential for Optimal Reconstruction?

Vector-quantized variational autoencoders (VQ-VAEs) are central to models that rely on high reconstruction fidelity, from neural compression to genera...

Localized Latent Editing for Dose-Response Modeling in Botulinum Toxin Injection Planning

Botulinum toxin (Botox) injections are the gold standard for managing facial asymmetry and aesthetic rejuvenation, yet determining the optimal dosage ...

Automated 3D facial smile attractiveness assessment before and after orthognathic surgery using transfer learning: A preliminary study.

The aesthetic appearance of the mouth during smiling significantly influences facial attractiveness, thereby, making smile analysis crucial in orthodo...