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In this paper, we propose a component-based discriminative approach for face alignment without requiring initialization. Unlike many approaches which locally optimize in a small range, our approach searches the face shape in a large range at the component level by a discriminative search algorithm. Specifically, a set of direction classifiers guide the search of the configurations of facial components among multiple detected modes of facial components. The direction classifiers are learned using a large number of aligned local patches and misaligned local patches from the training data. The discriminative search is extremely effective and able to find very good alignment results only in a few (2~3) search iterations. As the new approach gives excellent alignment results on the commonly used datasets (e.g., AR [18], FERET [21]) created under-controlled conditions, we evaluate our approach on a more challenging dataset containing over 1,700 well-labeled facial images with a large range of variations in pose, lighting, expression, and background. The experimental results show the superiority of our approach on both accuracy and efficiency.
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Liang, L., Xiao, R., Wen, F., Sun, J. (2008). Face Alignment Via Component-Based Discriminative Search. In: Forsyth, D., Torr, P., Zisserman, A. (eds) Computer Vision – ECCV 2008. ECCV 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5303. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-88688-4_6
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