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In this paper we propose to learn a mapping from image pixels into a dense template grid through a fully convolutional network. We formulate this task as a regression problem and train our network by leveraging upon manually annotated facial landmarks in-the-wild. We use such landmarks to establish a dense correspondence field between a three-dimensional object template and the input image, which...
3D face tracking using one monocular camera is an important topic, since it is useful in many domains such as: video surveillance system, human machine interaction, biometrics, etc. In this paper, we propose a new 3D face tracking which is robust to large head rotations. Underlying cascaded regression approach for 2D landmark detection, we build an extension in context of 3D pose tracking. To better...
Regression based facial landmark detection methods usually learns a series of regression functions to update the landmark positions from an initial estimation. Most of existing approaches focus on learning effective mapping functions with robust image features to improve performance. The approach to dealing with the initialization issue, however, receives relatively fewer attentions. In this paper,...
In this paper, we propose a novel multi-center convolutional neural network for unconstrained face alignment. To utilize structural correlations among different facial landmarks, we determine several clusters based on their spatial position. We pre-train our network to learn generic feature representations. We further fine-tune the pre-trained model to emphasize on locating a certain cluster of landmarks...
Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have been shown to produce synthetic face images of compelling realism. In this work, we present a conditional GAN approach to generate contextually valid facial expressions in dyadic human interactions. In contrast to previous work employing conditions related to facial attributes of generated identities, we focused on dyads in an attempt to model the relationship...
Constrained Local Models (CLMs) are a well-established family of methods for facial landmark detection. However, they have recently fallen out of favor to cascaded regressionbased approaches. This is in part due to the inability of existing CLM local detectors to model the very complex individual landmark appearance that is affected by expression, illumination, facial hair, makeup, and accessories...
We present a framework for robust face detection and landmark localisation of faces in the wild, which has been evaluated as part of `the 2nd Facial Landmark Localisation Competition'. The framework has four stages: face detection, bounding box aggregation, pose estimation and landmark localisation. To achieve a high detection rate, we use two publicly available CNN-based face detectors and two proprietary...
This paper introduces our submission to the 2nd Facial Landmark Localisation Competition. We present a deep architecture to directly detect facial landmarks without using face detection as an initialization. The architecture consists of two stages, a Basic Landmark Prediction Stage and a Whole Landmark Regression Stage. At the former stage, given an input image, the basic landmarks of all faces are...
Face alignment is a critical topic in the computer vision community. Numerous efforts have been made and various benchmark datasets have been released in recent decades. However, two significant issues remain in recent datasets, e.g., Intra-Dataset Variation and Inter-Dataset Variation. Inter-Dataset Variation refers to bias on expression, head pose, etc. inside one certain dataset, while Intra-Dataset...
With the increasing number of public available training data for face alignment, the regression-based methods attracted much attention and have become the dominant methods to solve this problem. There are two main factors, the variance of the regression target and the capacity of the regression model, affecting the performance of the regression task. In this paper, we present a Stacked Hourglass Network...
Face editing has a variety of applications, especially with the increasing popularity of photography using mobile devices. In this work, we argue that the performance of face image editing can be further improved by using semantic segmentation which marks each pixel with a label that indicates its corresponding facial part. To this end, we propose a deep learning based method for automatic pixel-level...
In this paper, we present a new benchmark (Menpo benchmark) for facial landmark localisation and summarise the results of the recent competition, so-called Menpo Challenge, run in conjunction to CVPR 2017. The Menpo benchmark, contrary to the previous benchmarks such as 300-W and 300-VW, contains facial images both in (nearly) frontal, as well as in profile pose (annotated with a different markup...
Facial analysis plays very important role in many vision applications, such as authentication and entertainments. The very early works in the 1990s mostly focus on estimating geometric deformations of facial landmarks to address this task. While in the past several years, more and more efforts have been made to directly learn an appearance regression for facial analysis. Though training regressions...
In this paper, we propose Deep Alignment Network (DAN), a robust face alignment method based on a deep neural network architecture. DAN consists of multiple stages, where each stage improves the locations of the facial landmarks estimated by the previous stage. Our method uses entire face images at all stages, contrary to the recently proposed face alignment methods that rely on local patches. This...
Facial landmark detection, as a typical and crucial task in computer vision, is widely used in face recognition, face animation, facial expression analysis, etc. In the past decades, many efforts are devoted to designing robust facial landmark detection algorithms. However, it remains a challenging task due to extreme poses, exaggerated facial expression, unconstrained illumination, etc. In this work,...
Blind deblurring consists a long studied task, however the outcomes of generic methods are not effective in real world blurred images. Domain-specific methods for deblurring targeted object categories, e.g. text or faces, frequently outperform their generic counterparts, hence they are attracting an increasing amount of attention. In this work, we develop such a domain-specific method to tackle deblurring...
This paper proposes how to evaluate aesthetically pleasing shapes of Ikebana works, that is one of the representative aspects of Japanese traditional culture. In free style category of Ikebana, it is important to include two of three elements: point, line, and face. It is also important to stabilize them by putting mass. Geometric shape Arrangements of Ikebana elements are statistically quantified...
We present a technique for semi-automatically super-deforming 3D character models. Super deformation is a unique style of exaggeration, often seen in Japanese animation and manga, to enhance characters' cute appearances. Specifically, super-deformed (SD) characters are chubby with stubby limbs and oversized heads. Given a reference SD model with a rig and a target character model, our method automatically...
Statistical craniofacial reconstruction methods have become an important research aspect in computer-aided craniofacial reconstruction. The existing joint statistical craniofacial reconstruction method based on PCA modeling is not scientific in terms of forensic anthropology, and its description ability for the shape correlation of skull and face is inadequate. So, partial least squares regression...
In worldwide semiconductor market has still inflated and required advanced, smaller, and lower cost package. From recently this situation, Fan-Out Wafer Level Package (FOWLP)/Panel Level Package has commercialized to fit for above demands. In this report, our three types of encapsulation materials, i.e., Liquid, Granule/Powder and Sheet encapsulation material, were expressed to apply for FOWLP/Panel...
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