Face Alignment

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Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28

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Datasets archive 2025-07-28

17 datasets whose archive record lists this task, ordered by the archive's paper count.

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Most implemented papers archive 2025-07-28

30 shown of 106 papers with code (308 tagged with this task in all), ordered by repositories listed in the archive, not by stars (the archive holds no stars, so PwC's “Social” and “Latest” sorts cannot be reproduced). Papers without a page here are shown as plain text.

• Deep High-Resolution Representation Learning for Visual Recognition
  20 Aug 2019 42 repositories listed Syntology ran 3 of 34 samples · 31 unverified · 16 pointer-only (licence)
  High-resolution representations are essential for position-sensitive vision problems, such as human pose estimation, semantic segmentation, and object detection.
• Joint Face Detection and Alignment using Multi-task Cascaded Convolutional Networks
  11 Apr 2016 42 repositories listed Syntology ran 1 of 9 samples · 8 unverified · 3 pointer-only (licence)
  Face detection and alignment in unconstrained environment are challenging due to various poses, illuminations and occlusions.
• High-Resolution Representations for Labeling Pixels and Regions
  9 Apr 2019 39 repositories listed Syntology ran 3 of 18 samples · 15 unverified · 5 pointer-only (licence)
  The proposed approach achieves superior results to existing single-model networks on COCO object detection.
• PFLD: A Practical Facial Landmark Detector
  28 Feb 2019 18 repositories listed
  Being accurate, efficient, and compact is essential to a facial landmark detector for practical use.
• Fine-Grained Head Pose Estimation Without Keypoints
  2 Oct 2017 14 repositories listed Syntology ran 3 of 3 samples · 0 unverified
  Estimating the head pose of a person is a crucial problem that has a large amount of applications such as aiding in gaze estimation, modeling attention, fitting 3D models to video and performing face alignment.
• RetinaFace: Single-Shot Multi-Level Face Localisation in the Wild
  1 Jun 2020 9 repositories listed
  Though tremendous strides have been made in uncontrolled face detection, accurate and efficient 2D face alignment and 3D face reconstruction in-the-wild remain an open challenge.
• Learning a model of facial shape and expression from 4D scans
  1 Nov 2017 9 repositories listed
  FLAME is low-dimensional but more expressive than the FaceWarehouse model and the Basel Face Model.
• ADNet: Attention-guided Deformable Convolutional Network for High Dynamic Range Imaging
  22 May 2021 8 repositories listed Syntology ran 0 of 10 samples · 10 unverified
  In this paper, we present an attention-guided deformable convolutional network for hand-held multi-frame high dynamic range (HDR) imaging, namely ADNet.
• How far are we from solving the 2D & 3D Face Alignment problem? (and a dataset of 230,000 3D facial landmarks)
  21 Mar 2017 8 repositories listed Syntology ran 4 of 15 samples · 11 unverified
  To this end, we make the following 5 contributions: (a) we construct, for the first time, a very strong baseline by combining a state-of-the-art architecture for landmark localization with a state-of-the-art residual…
• Adaptive Wing Loss for Robust Face Alignment via Heatmap Regression
  16 Apr 2019 7 repositories listed Syntology ran 7 of 27 samples · 20 unverified · 1 pointer-only (licence)
  Then we propose a novel loss function, named Adaptive Wing loss, that is able to adapt its shape to different types of ground truth heatmap pixels.
• Wing Loss for Robust Facial Landmark Localisation with Convolutional Neural Networks
  17 Nov 2017 6 repositories listed
  We present a new loss function, namely Wing loss, for robust facial landmark localisation with Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs).
• FacePoseNet: Making a Case for Landmark-Free Face Alignment
  24 Aug 2017 5 repositories listed
  Instead, we compare our FPN with existing methods by evaluating how they affect face recognition accuracy on the IJB-A and IJB-B benchmarks: using the same recognition pipeline, but varying the face alignment method.
• Synergy between 3DMM and 3D Landmarks for Accurate 3D Facial Geometry
  19 Oct 2021 4 repositories listed
  Our synergy process leverages a representation cycle for 3DMM parameters and 3D landmarks.
• Joint 3D Face Reconstruction and Dense Alignment with Position Map Regression Network
  21 Mar 2018 4 repositories listed Syntology ran 0 of 10 samples · 10 unverified
  We propose a straightforward method that simultaneously reconstructs the 3D facial structure and provides dense alignment.
• FSRNet: End-to-End Learning Face Super-Resolution with Facial Priors
  29 Nov 2017 4 repositories listed
  We present a novel deep end-to-end trainable Face Super-Resolution Network (FSRNet), which makes full use of the geometry prior, i.
• Towards Fast, Accurate and Stable 3D Dense Face Alignment
  21 Sep 2020 3 repositories listed Syntology ran 6 of 10 samples · 4 unverified · 3 pointer-only (licence)
  Firstly, on the basis of a lightweight backbone, we propose a meta-joint optimization strategy to dynamically regress a small set of 3DMM parameters, which greatly enhances speed and accuracy simultaneously.
• Stacked Dense U-Nets with Dual Transformers for Robust Face Alignment
  5 Dec 2018 3 repositories listed
  Face Analysis Project on MXNet
• Deep Alignment Network: A convolutional neural network for robust face alignment
  6 Jun 2017 3 repositories listed Syntology ran 3 of 3 samples · 0 unverified · 3 pointer-only (licence)
  Our method uses entire face images at all stages, contrary to the recently proposed face alignment methods that rely on local patches.
• Binarized Convolutional Landmark Localizers for Human Pose Estimation and Face Alignment with Limited Resources
  2 Mar 2017 3 repositories listed
  (d) We present results for experiments on the most challenging datasets for human pose estimation and face alignment, reporting in many cases state-of-the-art performance.
• ARoFace: Alignment Robustness to Improve Low-Quality Face Recognition
  20 Jul 2024 2 repositories listed Syntology ran 2 of 2 samples · 0 unverified · 2 pointer-only (licence)
  Aiming to enhance Face Recognition (FR) on Low-Quality (LQ) inputs, recent studies suggest incorporating synthetic LQ samples into training.
• ImFace: A Nonlinear 3D Morphable Face Model with Implicit Neural Representations
  28 Mar 2022 2 repositories listed
  Precise representations of 3D faces are beneficial to various computer vision and graphics applications.
• General Facial Representation Learning in a Visual-Linguistic Manner
  6 Dec 2021 2 repositories listed Syntology ran 1 of 5 samples · 4 unverified · 4 pointer-only (licence)
  In this paper, we study the transfer performance of pre-trained models on face analysis tasks and introduce a framework, called FaRL, for general Facial Representation Learning in a visual-linguistic manner.
• Pre-training strategies and datasets for facial representation learning
  30 Mar 2021 2 repositories listed
  Recent work on Deep Learning in the area of face analysis has focused on supervised learning for specific tasks of interest (e.
• img2pose: Face Alignment and Detection via 6DoF, Face Pose Estimation
  14 Dec 2020 2 repositories listed
  Tests on AFLW2000-3D and BIWI show that our method runs at real-time and outperforms state of the art (SotA) face pose estimators.
• Learning an Animatable Detailed 3D Face Model from In-The-Wild Images
  7 Dec 2020 2 repositories listed
  Some methods produce faces that cannot be realistically animated because they do not model how wrinkles vary with expression.
• Heatmap Regression via Randomized Rounding
  1 Sep 2020 2 repositories listed
  Previous methods to overcome the sub-pixel localization problem usually rely on high-resolution heatmaps.
• Structured Landmark Detection via Topology-Adapting Deep Graph Learning
  17 Apr 2020 2 repositories listed
  Image landmark detection aims to automatically identify the locations of predefined fiducial points.
• Pixel-in-Pixel Net: Towards Efficient Facial Landmark Detection in the Wild
  8 Mar 2020 2 repositories listed Syntology ran 2 of 17 samples · 15 unverified
  The proposed model is equipped with a novel detection head based on heatmap regression, which conducts score and offset predictions simultaneously on low-resolution feature maps.
• B-Spline CNNs on Lie Groups
  26 Sep 2019 2 repositories listed Syntology ran 2 of 2 samples · 0 unverified · 1 pointer-only (licence)
  The impact and potential of our approach is studied on two benchmark datasets: cancer detection in histopathology slides in which rotation equivariance plays a key role and facial landmark localization in which scale…
• 3D Face Reconstruction from A Single Image Assisted by 2D Face Images in the Wild
  22 Mar 2019 2 repositories listed
  3D face reconstruction from a single 2D image is a challenging problem with broad applications.

Syntology lines on 14 of the papers shown; no Syntology record for the others (a paper without an arXiv id cannot be joined to the graph, and absence from the graph layer is not a recorded non-run). “Ran” means the sample executed on a synthesized fixture, not that the paper's result was reproduced. Read from the graph 2026-09-24.