A Fast Implementation of DPM-Based Facial Landmark Localization

Abstract

Face detection, pose estimation and facial landmark localization are three fundamental problems in pattern recognition. These three tasks have high request of algorithm efficiency and accuracy. Zhu and Ramanan proposed a model based on mixture of tree structures to solve the three tasks simultaneously and it obtains state-of-the-art result. However, the efficiency of their algorithm is relatively low. Our improved algorithm combines Viola Jones detector and tree-structured model and achieves a speed-up of tens of times even hundreds of times of original algorithm on ordinary laptop according to images of different sizes.