ConcatNet: A Deep Architecture of Concatenation-Assisted Network for Dense Facial Landmark Alignment

Hyewon Song, Jiwoo Kang, Sanghoon Lee

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Abstract

Facial landmark is one of the most basic elements for obtaining facial information such as facial expression and emotion. However, detecting dense landmarks on an image is challenging due to various facial poses. In this paper, a deep architecture for dense facial landmark detection, called ConcatNet, is proposed. In our architecture, we propose a CNN-based dense landmark detector on part regions of a face, which extends a given set of sparse landmarks to more accurate and dense landmarks. By introducing interface layers for coordinate normalization and part region localization, we concatenate a network for sparse landmark detection to ConcatNet in a global-to-local manner and the whole network to operate in an end-to-end manner. The experimental results on LFW and 300W datasets show that ConcatNet not only expands the number of the sparse landmarks but also increases the accuracy of the landmark positions remarkably. Also, ConcatNet shows high accuracy in detecting the dense landmarks with a smaller dataset and without additional data on an image such as 3D position annotations when compared to 3D model-based detection method.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2018 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2018 - Proceedings
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages2371-2375
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9781479970612
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2018 Aug 29
Event25th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2018 - Athens, Greece
Duration: 2018 Oct 72018 Oct 10

Publication series

NameProceedings - International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP
ISSN (Print)1522-4880

Conference

Conference25th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2018
Country/TerritoryGreece
CityAthens
Period18/10/718/10/10

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
This work was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korea government (MSIT) (No. 2016R1A2B2014525)

Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 IEEE.

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Software
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Signal Processing

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