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Deep Learning-Based Face Pose Recovery (arxiv.org)
2 points by headalgorithm on May 1, 2019 | hide | past | pdf | 1 comment on HN

In plain words: Instead of tagging each face photo with one exact head angle, the system trains on a soft spread of nearby angles, so similar-looking faces help each other learn. It then beat the best previous methods on four test sets.

Abstract · Facial Pose Estimation by Deep Learning from Label Distributions

Facial pose estimation has gained a lot of attentions in many practical applications, such as human-robot interaction, gaze estimation and driver monitoring. Meanwhile, end-to-end deep learning-based facial pose estimation is becoming more and more popular. However, facial pose estimation suffers from a key challenge: the lack of sufficient training data for many poses, especially for large poses. Inspired by the observation that the faces under close poses look similar, we reformulate the facial pose estimation as a label distribution learning problem, considering each face image as an example associated with a Gaussian label distribution rather than a single label, and construct a convolutional neural network which is trained with a multi-loss function on AFLW dataset and 300W-LP dataset to predict the facial poses directly from color image. Extensive experiments are conducted on several popular benchmarks, including AFLW2000, BIWI, AFLW and AFW, where our approach shows a significant advantage over other state-of-the-art methods.

Zhaoxiang Liu, Zezhou Chen, Jinqiang Bai, Shaohua Li, Shiguo Lian
arXiv:1904.13102 · cs.CV, cs.AI · submitted Apr 30, 2019 · updated Oct 12, 2020
abstract · pdf · html · 9 pages,5 figures, Accepted by ICCV 2019 workshop

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Nice. Their key insight: "Inspired by the observation that the faces under close poses look similar, we reformulate the facial pose estimation as a label distribution learning problem, considering each face image as an example associated with a Gaussian label distribution rather than a single label"