Summary of Fiducial Focus Augmentation For Facial Landmark Detection, by Purbayan Kar et al.
Fiducial Focus Augmentation for Facial Landmark Detection
by Purbayan Kar, Vishal Chudasama, Naoyuki Onoe, Pankaj Wasnik, Vineeth Balasubramanian
First submitted to arxiv on: 23 Feb 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary Deep learning methods have led to significant improvements in facial landmark detection (FLD), but challenges persist, such as head pose changes, exaggerated expressions, or uneven illumination. This paper proposes a novel image augmentation technique for FLD to enhance the model’s understanding of facial structures. A Siamese architecture-based training mechanism with DCCA-based loss is employed to achieve collective learning of high-level feature representations from two different views of input images. The approach uses a Transformer + CNN-based network with a custom hourglass module as the robust backbone. Our approach outperforms state-of-the-art approaches across various benchmark datasets, showcasing its effectiveness in challenging settings. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper helps us better detect facial landmarks even when faces are changed or have uneven lighting. Right now, computers struggle to find these landmarks because they don’t understand the structure of a face very well. The authors came up with a new way to make images that will help computers learn more about facial structures. They used a special kind of training method and a strong computer model to do this. After trying it out on many different datasets, they found that their approach worked really well even in tricky situations. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Cnn * Deep learning * Transformer
