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Pooling Facial Segments to Face: The Shallow and Deep Ends

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Abstract

Generic face detection algorithms do not perform very well in the mobile domain due to significant presence of occluded and partially visible faces. One promising technique to handle the challenge of partial faces is to design face detectors based on facial segments. In this paper two such face detectors namely, SegFace and DeepSegFace, are proposed that detect the presence of a face given arbitrary combinations of certain face segments. Both methods use proposals from facial segments as input that are found using weak boosted classifiers. SegFace is a shallow and fast algorithm using traditional features, tailored for situations where real time constraints must be satisfied. On the other hand, DeepSegFace is a more powerful algorithm based on a deep convolutional neutral network (DCNN) architecture. DeepSegFace offers certain advantages over other DCNN-based face detectors as it requires relatively small amount of data to train by utilizing a novel data augmentation scheme and is very robust to occlusion by design. Extensive experiments show the superiority of the proposed methods, specially DeepSegFace, over other state-of-the-art face detectors in terms of precision-recall and ROC curve on two mobile face datasets.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationProceedings - 12th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, FG 2017 - 1st International Workshop on Adaptive Shot Learning for Gesture Understanding and Production, ASL4GUP 2017, Biometrics in the Wild, Bwild 2017, Heterogeneous Face Recognition, HFR 2017, Joint Challenge on Dominant and Complementary Emotion Recognition Using Micro Emotion Features and Head-Pose Estimation, DCER and HPE 2017 and 3rd Facial Expression Recognition and Analysis Challenge, FERA 2017
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages634-641
Number of pages8
ISBN (Electronic)9781509040230
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 28 2017
Externally publishedYes
Event12th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, FG 2017 - Washington, United States
Duration: May 30 2017Jun 3 2017

Publication series

NameProceedings - 12th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, FG 2017 - 1st International Workshop on Adaptive Shot Learning for Gesture Understanding and Production, ASL4GUP 2017, Biometrics in the Wild, Bwild 2017, Heterogeneous Face Recognition, HFR 2017, Joint Challenge on Dominant and Complementary Emotion Recognition Using Micro Emotion Features and Head-Pose Estimation, DCER and HPE 2017 and 3rd Facial Expression Recognition and Analysis Challenge, FERA 2017

Conference

Conference12th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, FG 2017
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityWashington
Period5/30/176/3/17

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Media Technology
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

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