Title
Topic-Aware Deep Auto-Encoders (Tda) For Face Alignment
Abstract
Facial landmark localization plays an important role for many computer vision tasks, e.g., face recognition, face parsing, facial expression analysis, face animation, etc. However, it remains a challenging problem due to the diverse variations, such as head poses, facial expressions, occlusions and so on. In this work, we propose a topic-aware face alignment method to divide the difficult task of estimating the target shape into several much easier subtasks according to the topics. Specifically, topics are determined automatically by clustering according to the target shapes or shape deviations which are more compatible with the task of alignment. Then, within each topic, a deep auto-encoder network is employed to regress from the shape-indexed feature to the target shape. Deep model specific to each topic can capture more subtle variations in shape and appearance, and thus leading to better alignment results. This process is conducted in a cascade structure to further improve the performance. Experiments on three challenging databases demonstrate that our method significantly outperforms the state-of-the-art methods and performs in real-time.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1007/978-3-319-16811-1_46
COMPUTER VISION - ACCV 2014, PT III
Field
DocType
Volume
Computer vision,Facial recognition system,Pattern recognition,Computer science,Auto encoders,Facial expression,Artificial intelligence,Animation,Parsing,Landmark,Cluster analysis
Conference
9005
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0302-9743
2
0.38
References 
Authors
18
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jie Zhang120514.03
Meina Kan271326.32
Shiguang Shan36322283.75
Xiaowei Zhao4353.06
Xilin Chen56291306.27