TY - GEN
T1 - A Coupled Encoder-Decoder Network for Joint Face Detection and Landmark Localization
AU - Wang, Lezi
AU - Yu, Xiang
AU - Metaxas, Dimitris N.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work is supported by grants of NSF-1451292, NSF-MRI- 1229628, NASA-NSBRI-NBTS01601, NSF-HCC-1064965, and ARO-MURI- 68985NSMUR to D. Metaxas.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 IEEE.
PY - 2017/6/28
Y1 - 2017/6/28
N2 - Face detection and landmark localization have been extensively investigated and are the prerequisite for many face applications, such as face recognition and 3D face reconstruction. Most existing methods achieve success on only one of the two problems. In this paper, we propose a coupled encoderdecoder network to jointly detect faces and localize facial key points. The encoder and decoder generate response maps for facial landmark localization. Moreover, we observe that the intermediate feature maps from the encoder and decoder have strong power in describing facial regions, which motivates us to build a unified framework by coupling the feature maps for multi-scale cascaded face detection. Experiments on face detection show strongly competitive results against the existing methods on two public benchmarks. The landmark localization further shows consistently better accuracy than state-of-the-arts on three face-in-the-wild databases.
AB - Face detection and landmark localization have been extensively investigated and are the prerequisite for many face applications, such as face recognition and 3D face reconstruction. Most existing methods achieve success on only one of the two problems. In this paper, we propose a coupled encoderdecoder network to jointly detect faces and localize facial key points. The encoder and decoder generate response maps for facial landmark localization. Moreover, we observe that the intermediate feature maps from the encoder and decoder have strong power in describing facial regions, which motivates us to build a unified framework by coupling the feature maps for multi-scale cascaded face detection. Experiments on face detection show strongly competitive results against the existing methods on two public benchmarks. The landmark localization further shows consistently better accuracy than state-of-the-arts on three face-in-the-wild databases.
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U2 - 10.1109/FG.2017.40
DO - 10.1109/FG.2017.40
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85026314118
T3 - Proceedings - 12th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, FG 2017 - 1st International Workshop on Adaptive Shot Learning for Gesture Understanding and Production, ASL4GUP 2017, Biometrics in the Wild, Bwild 2017, Heterogeneous Face Recognition, HFR 2017, Joint Challenge on Dominant and Complementary Emotion Recognition Using Micro Emotion Features and Head-Pose Estimation, DCER and HPE 2017 and 3rd Facial Expression Recognition and Analysis Challenge, FERA 2017
SP - 251
EP - 257
BT - Proceedings - 12th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, FG 2017 - 1st International Workshop on Adaptive Shot Learning for Gesture Understanding and Production, ASL4GUP 2017, Biometrics in the Wild, Bwild 2017, Heterogeneous Face Recognition, HFR 2017, Joint Challenge on Dominant and Complementary Emotion Recognition Using Micro Emotion Features and Head-Pose Estimation, DCER and HPE 2017 and 3rd Facial Expression Recognition and Analysis Challenge, FERA 2017
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 12th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, FG 2017
Y2 - 30 May 2017 through 3 June 2017
ER -