Abstract
Current supervised methods for facial landmark detection require a large amount of training data and may suffer from overfitting to specific datasets due to the massive number of parameters. We introduce a semi-supervised method in which the crucial idea is to first generate implicit face knowledge from the large amounts of unlabeled images of faces available today. In a first, completely unsupervised stage, we train an adversarial autoencoder to reconstruct faces via a low-dimensional face embedding. In a second, supervised stage, we interleave the decoder with transfer layers to retask the generation of color images to the prediction of landmark heatmaps. Our framework (3FabRec) achieves state-of-the-art performance on several common benchmarks and, most importantly, is able to maintain impressive accuracy on extremely small training sets down to as few as 10 images. As the interleaved layers only add a low amount of parameters to the decoder, inference runs at several hundred FPS on a GPU.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 9157661 |
Pages (from-to) | 6109-6119 |
Number of pages | 11 |
Journal | Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2020 |
Event | 2020 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2020 - Virtual, Online, United States Duration: 2020 Jun 14 → 2020 Jun 19 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:Acknowledgements This work was supported by Institute of Information & Communications Technology Planning & Evaluation (IITP) grant funded by the Korean government (MSIT) (No. 2019-0-00079, Department of Artificial Intelligence, Korea University)
Funding Information:
This work was supported by Institute of Information &Communications Technology Planning &Evaluation (IITP) grant funded by the Korean government (MSIT) (No. 2019-0-00079, Department of Artificial Intelligence, Korea University)
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 IEEE.
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Software
- Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition