{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/learning-deep-representation-for-face","title":"Learning Deep Representation for Face Alignment with Auxiliary Attributes","arxiv_id":"1408.3967","date":"2014-08-18","proceeding":null,"authors":["Zhanpeng Zhang","Ping Luo","Chen Change Loy","Xiaoou Tang"],"abstract":"In this study, we show that landmark detection or face alignment task is not a single and independent problem. Instead, its robustness can be greatly improved with auxiliary information. Specifically, we jointly optimize landmark detection together with the recognition of heterogeneous but subtly correlated facial attributes, such as gender, expression, and appearance attributes. This is non-trivial since different attribute inference tasks have different learning difficulties and convergence rates. To address this problem, we formulate a novel tasks-constrained deep model, which not only learns the inter-task correlation but also employs dynamic task coefficients to facilitate the optimization convergence when learning multiple complex tasks. Extensive evaluations show that the proposed task-constrained learning (i) outperforms existing face alignment methods, especially in dealing with faces with severe occlusion and pose variation, and (ii) reduces model complexity drastically compared to the state-of-the-art methods based on cascaded deep model.","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/1408.3967v4","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/1408.3967v4.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"attribute","task_name":"Attribute"},{"task_slug":"face-alignment","task_name":"Face Alignment"}],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[{"leaderboard":"/sota/unsupervised-facial-landmark-detection-on-1","task":"Unsupervised Facial Landmark Detection","dataset":"MAFL","model":"TCDCN","rank_in_archive_order":13,"of":13,"metrics":{"NME":"7.95"},"uses_additional_data":false}],"syntology":{"atlas_url":"https://app.syntology.ai/?focus=1408.3967","mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}