Semi-supervised facial landmark annotation
| Autor: | Yan Tong, Frederick Wilson Wheeler, Xiaoming Liu, Peter Henry Tu |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
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Computer science business.industry ComputingMethodologies_IMAGEPROCESSINGANDCOMPUTERVISION Process (computing) Pattern recognition Object detection Image (mathematics) Set (abstract data type) Annotation Automatic image annotation Face (geometry) Signal Processing Computer vision Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Artificial intelligence business Software |
| Zdroj: | Computer Vision and Image Understanding. 116:922-935 |
| ISSN: | 1077-3142 |
| Popis: | Highlights? A semi-supervised least-squares-based congealing algorithm is proposed. ? A statistical shape model learned online is integrated into congealing. ? We develop a system to automatically estimate the landmark set for an image ensemble. Landmark annotation for training images is essential for many learning tasks in computer vision, such as object detection, tracking, and alignment. Image annotation is typically conducted manually, which is both labor-intensive and error-prone. To improve this process, this paper proposes a new approach to estimating the locations of a set of landmarks for a large image ensemble using manually annotated landmarks for only a small number of images in the ensemble. Our approach, named semi-supervised least-squares congealing, aims to minimize an objective function defined on both annotated and unannotated images. A shape model is learned online to constrain the landmark configuration. We employ an iterative coarse-to-fine patch-based scheme together with a greedy patch selection strategy for landmark location estimation. Extensive experiments on facial images show that our approach can reliably and accurately annotate landmarks for a large image ensemble starting with a small number of manually annotated images, under several challenging scenarios. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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