Title
Integrated Face Analytics Networks through Cross-Dataset Hybrid Training.
Abstract
Face analytics benefits many multimedia applications. It consists of a number of tasks, such as facial emotion recognition and face parsing, and most existing approaches generally treat these tasks independently, which limits their deployment in real scenarios. In this paper we propose an integrated Face Analytics Network (iFAN), which is able to perform multiple tasks jointly for face analytics with a novel carefully designed network architecture to fully facilitate the informative interaction among different tasks. The proposed integrated network explicitly models the interactions between tasks so that the correlations between tasks can be fully exploited for performance boost. In addition, to solve the bottleneck of the absence of datasets with comprehensive training data for various tasks, we propose a novel cross-dataset hybrid training strategy. It allows "plug-in and play'' of multiple datasets annotated for different tasks without the requirement of a fully labeled common dataset for all the tasks. We experimentally show that the proposed iFAN achieves state-of-the-art performance on multiple face analytics tasks using a single integrated model. Specifically, iFAN achieves an overall F-score of 91.15% on the Helen dataset for face parsing, a normalized mean error of 5.81% on the MTFL dataset for facial landmark localization and an accuracy of 45.73% on the BNU dataset for emotion recognition with a single model.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1145/3123266.3123438
MM '17: ACM Multimedia Conference Mountain View California USA October, 2017
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Integrated network, Face analytics, Cross-dataset hybrid training, Feedback loop, Task interaction
Journal
abs/1711.06055
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4503-4906-2
3
0.39
References 
Authors
18
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jianshu Li114112.04
Shengtao Xiao2886.45
Fang Zhao3464.03
Jian Zhao4595.07
Jianan Li515316.01
Jiashi Feng62165140.81
Shuicheng Yan79701359.54
Terence Sim82562169.42