Papers › Fast and Accurate: Structure Coherence Component for Face Alignment
Fast and Accurate: Structure Coherence Component for Face Alignment
Beier Zhu, Chunze Lin, Quan Wang, Renjie Liao, Chen Qian
In this paper, we propose a fast and accurate coordinate regression method for face alignment. Unlike most existing facial landmark regression methods which usually employ fully connected layers to convert feature maps into landmark coordinate, we present a structure coherence component to explicitly take the relation among facial landmarks into account. Due to the geometric structure of human face, structure coherence between different facial parts provides important cues for effectively localizing facial landmarks. However, the dense connection in the fully connected layers overuses such coherence, making the important cues unable to be distinguished from all connections. Instead, our structure coherence component leverages a dynamic sparse graph structure to passing features among the most related landmarks. Furthermore, we propose a novel objective function, named Soft Wing loss, to improve the accuracy. Extensive experiments on three popular benchmarks, including WFLW, COFW and 300W, demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method, achieving state-of-the-art performance with fast speed. Our approach is especially robust to challenging cases resulting in impressively low failure rate (0% and 2.88%) in COFW and WFLW datasets.
Code
No code repository is listed for this paper in the archive or in Syntology's graph.
Code Syntology ran Syntology
Not run by Syntology. Nothing on this page verifies that the listed code works.
Tasks
Results from the paper archive 2025-07-28
| Task | Dataset | Model | Metric | Value | Rank at snapshot | Leaderboard | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Face Alignment | 300W | SCC | NME_inter-ocular (%, Challenge) | 4.93 | #21 of 48 | Archive leaderboard | report |
| Face Alignment | 300W | SCC | NME_inter-ocular (%, Common) | 2.88 | #21 of 48 | Archive leaderboard | report |
| Face Alignment | 300W | SCC | NME_inter-ocular (%, Full) | 3.28 | #21 of 48 | Archive leaderboard | report |
| Face Alignment | COFW | SCC | NME (inter-ocular) | 3.63% | #15 of 28 | Archive leaderboard | report |
| Face Alignment | WFLW | SCC | AUC@10 (inter-ocular) | 56.66 | #20 of 36 | Archive leaderboard | report |
| Face Alignment | WFLW | SCC | FR@10 (inter-ocular) | 2.88 | #20 of 36 | Archive leaderboard | report |
| Face Alignment | WFLW | SCC | NME (inter-ocular) | 4.4 | #20 of 36 | Archive leaderboard | report |
Ranks are positions in the archive's leaderboards as they stood at the 2025-07-28 snapshot. Results published since then are not among these rows, so a rank here is not a current standing.
Report a problem or propose a change · a person checks every report against the paper or source before anything changes; decisions are listed on /corrections