PFLD: A Practical Facial Landmark Detector

Understand

Being accurate, efficient, and compact is essential to a facial landmark detector for practical use.

• To simultaneously consider the three concerns, this paper investigates a neat model with promising detection accuracy under wild environments e.g., unconstrained pose, expression, lighting, and occlusion conditions) and super real-time speed on a mobile device.
• More concretely, we customize an end-to-end single stage network associated with acceleration techniques.
• During the training phase, for each sample, rotation information is estimated for geometrically regularizing landmark localization, which is then NOT involved in the testing phase.