Georgios Tzimiropoulos
Project-out cascaded regression with an application to face alignment
Tzimiropoulos, Georgios
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Abstract
Cascaded regression approaches have been recently shown to achieve state-of-the-art performance for many computer vision tasks. Beyond its connection to boosting, cascaded regression has been interpreted as a learning-based approach to iterative optimization methods like the Newton’s method. However, in prior work, the connection to optimization theory is limited only in learning a mapping from image features to problem parameters. In this paper, we consider the problem of facial deformable model fitting using cascaded regression and make the following contributions: (a) We propose regression to learn a sequence of averaged Jacobian and Hessian matrices from data, and from them descent directions in a fashion inspired by Gauss-Newton optimization. (b) We show that the optimization problem in hand has structure and devise a learning strategy for a cascaded regression approach that takes the problem structure into account. By doing so, the proposed method learns and employs a sequence of averaged Jacobians and descent directions in a subspace orthogonal to the facial appearance variation; hence, we call it Project-Out Cascaded Regression (PO-CR). (c) Based on the principles of PO-CR, we built a face alignment system that produces remarkably accurate results on the challenging iBUG data set outperforming previously proposed systems by a large margin. Code for our system is available from http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/yzt/ .
Citation
Tzimiropoulos, G. Project-out cascaded regression with an application to face alignment. Presented at 2015 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
Conference Name | 2015 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) |
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End Date | Jun 12, 2015 |
Publication Date | Jan 1, 2015 |
Deposit Date | Jan 29, 2016 |
Publicly Available Date | Jan 29, 2016 |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Public URL | https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/993197 |
Publisher URL | http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=7298989&filter=AND%28p_Publication_Number:7293313%29 |
Additional Information | © 2015 IEEE. Published in: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2015 IEEE Conference on. [Piscataway, N.J.] :IEEE, c2015. ISBN 9781467369640. |
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