Summary of Norface: Improving Facial Expression Analysis by Identity Normalization, By Hanwei Liu et al.
Norface: Improving Facial Expression Analysis by Identity Normalization
by Hanwei Liu, Rudong An, Zhimeng Zhang, Bowen Ma, Wei Zhang, Yan Song, Yujing Hu, Wei Chen, Yu Ding
First submitted to arxiv on: 22 Jul 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The proposed Norface framework addresses the challenge of facial expression analysis by developing a unified approach for both Action Unit (AU) analysis and Facial Emotion Recognition (FER) tasks. The framework consists of a normalization network and a classification network, which work together to remove task-irrelevant noise such as identity, head pose, and background. The normalization network maintains facial expression consistency while normalizing all original images to a common identity with consistent pose and background. This normalized data is then fed into the classification network, which incorporates a Mixture of Experts to refine the latent representation and handle multiple labels. Experimental results demonstrate that Norface outperforms existing state-of-the-art (SOTA) methods in various facial expression analysis tasks. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper proposes a new way to analyze facial expressions called Norface. It tries to fix problems like people looking at different angles or having different backgrounds. The approach is split into two parts: one that makes the faces look similar and another that figures out what emotion they’re showing. The paper says this helps get better results than other methods, especially when it comes to detecting specific facial expressions. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Classification » Mixture of experts
