Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, Volume. 57, Issue 24, 241026(2020)

High-Precision and Lightweight Facial Landmark Detection Algorithm

Lihuai Xu1, Zhe Li2, Jiajia Jiang1、*, Fajie Duan1, and Xiao Fu1
Author Affiliations
  • 1State Key Laboratory of Precision Measuring Technology and Instruments, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China
  • 2Institute of Deep-Sea Science and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Sanya, Hainan 572000, China
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    In view of the high complexity of the current facial landmark detection algorithm network model, which is not conducive to deployment on devices with limited computing resources, this paper proposes a high-precision and lightweight facial landmark detection algorithm based on the idea of knowledge distillation. This algorithm improves the Bottleneck module of residual network(ResNet50) and introduces packet deconvolution to obtain a lightweight student network. At the same time, a pixel-wise loss function and a pair-wise loss function are proposed. By aligning the output feature maps and intermediate feature maps of the teacher network and the student network, the prior knowledge of the teacher network is transferred to the student network, thereby improving the detection accuracy of the student network. Experiments show that the student network obtained by this algorithm has only 2.81M parameter amount and 10.20MB model size, the frames per second on the GTX1080 graphics card is 162frames and the normalized mean error on 300W and WFLW datasets are 3.60% and 5.50%, respectively.

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    Lihuai Xu, Zhe Li, Jiajia Jiang, Fajie Duan, Xiao Fu. High-Precision and Lightweight Facial Landmark Detection Algorithm[J]. Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, 2020, 57(24): 241026

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    Paper Information

    Category: Image Processing

    Received: Jan. 8, 2020

    Accepted: Mar. 17, 2020

    Published Online: Dec. 30, 2020

    The Author Email: Jiang Jiajia (jiajiajiang@tju.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/LOP57.241026

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