Facial Landmark Detection

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Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28

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Datasets archive 2025-07-28

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

Subtasks archive 2025-07-28

3 subtasks in the archive's task tree.

Parent tasks archive 2025-07-28

Most implemented papers archive 2025-07-28

30 shown of 52 papers with code (139 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.

• 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.
• 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.
• Fast Localization of Facial Landmark Points
  26 Mar 2014 3 repositories listed
  We describe a method that can accurately estimate the positions of relevant facial landmarks in real-time even on hardware with limited processing power, such as mobile devices.
• FaceXFormer: A Unified Transformer for Facial Analysis
  19 Mar 2024 2 repositories listed
  In this work, we introduce FaceXFormer, an end-to-end unified transformer model capable of performing nine facial analysis tasks including face parsing, landmark detection, head pose estimation, attribute prediction,…
• 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.
• Whole-Body Human Pose Estimation in the Wild
  23 Jul 2020 2 repositories listed
  This paper investigates the task of 2D human whole-body pose estimation, which aims to localize dense landmarks on the entire human body including face, hands, body, and feet.
• 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.
• Learning to Impute: A General Framework for Semi-supervised Learning
  22 Dec 2019 2 repositories listed Syntology ran 1 of 1 samples · 0 unverified · 1 pointer-only (licence)
  Recent semi-supervised learning methods have shown to achieve comparable results to their supervised counterparts while using only a small portion of labels in image classification tasks thanks to their regularization…
• Teacher Supervises Students How to Learn From Partially Labeled Images for Facial Landmark Detection
  6 Aug 2019 2 repositories listed Syntology ran 1 of 9 samples · 8 unverified
  A typical approach is to (1) train a detector on the labeled images; (2) generate new training samples using this detector's prediction as pseudo labels of unlabeled images; (3) retrain the detector on the labeled…
• Super-realtime facial landmark detection and shape fitting by deep regression of shape model parameters
  9 Feb 2019 2 repositories listed
  We present a method for highly efficient landmark detection that combines deep convolutional neural networks with well established model-based fitting algorithms.
• Look at Boundary: A Boundary-Aware Face Alignment Algorithm
  26 May 2018 2 repositories listed
  By utilising boundary information of 300-W dataset, our method achieves 3.
• MOL: Joint Estimation of Micro-Expression, Optical Flow, and Landmark via Transformer-Graph-Style Convolution
  17 Jun 2025 1 repository listed
  In particular, we propose a novel F5C block composed of fully-connected convolution and channel correspondence convolution to directly extract local-global features from a sequence of raw frames, without the prior…
• Precise Facial Landmark Detection by Dynamic Semantic Aggregation Transformer
  1 Dec 2024 1 repository listed
  Finally, by integrating the DSA model and DSS model into our proposed DSAT in both dynamic architecture and dynamic parameter manners, more specialized features can be learned for achieving more precise face alignment.
• Cascaded Dual Vision Transformer for Accurate Facial Landmark Detection
  8 Nov 2024 1 repository listed
  This paper introduces a new facial landmark detector based on vision transformers, which consists of two unique designs: Dual Vision Transformer (D-ViT) and Long Skip Connections (LSC).
• POPoS: Improving Efficient and Robust Facial Landmark Detection with Parallel Optimal Position Search
  12 Oct 2024 1 repository listed
  (2) To enhance the pseudo-range accuracy of selected anchor points, a new loss function, named multilateration anchor loss, is proposed.
• Towards Multi-domain Face Landmark Detection with Synthetic Data from Diffusion model
  24 Jan 2024 1 repository listed
  Finally, we fine-tuned a pre-trained face landmark detection model on the synthetic dataset to achieve multi-domain face landmark detection.
• STAR Loss: Reducing Semantic Ambiguity in Facial Landmark Detection
  5 Jun 2023 1 repository listed Syntology ran 4 of 4 samples · 0 unverified · 4 pointer-only (licence)
  To solve this problem, we propose a Self-adapTive Ambiguity Reduction (STAR) loss by exploiting the properties of semantic ambiguity.
• KeyPosS: Plug-and-Play Facial Landmark Detection through GPS-Inspired True-Range Multilateration
  25 May 2023 1 repository listed
  By spearheading the integration of Multilateration with facial analysis, KeyPosS marks a paradigm shift in facial landmark detection.
• ArtFacePoints: High-resolution Facial Landmark Detection in Paintings and Prints
  17 Oct 2022 1 repository listed
  Facial landmark detection plays an important role for the similarity analysis in artworks to compare portraits of the same or similar artists.
• Shape Preserving Facial Landmarks with Graph Attention Networks
  13 Oct 2022 1 repository listed
  Top-performing landmark estimation algorithms are based on exploiting the excellent ability of large convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to represent local appearance.
• ACR Loss: Adaptive Coordinate-based Regression Loss for Face Alignment
  29 Mar 2022 1 repository listed
  Heatmap-based Regression (HBR) and Coordinate-based Regression (CBR) are among the two mainly used methods for face alignment.
• Facial Landmark Points Detection Using Knowledge Distillation-Based Neural Networks
  13 Nov 2021 1 repository listed
  We use two Teacher networks, a Tolerant-Teacher and a Tough-Teacher in conjunction with the Student network.
• Towards Fine-grained Image Classification with Generative Adversarial Networks and Facial Landmark Detection
  28 Aug 2021 1 repository listed
  To encounter this problem, we made the best use of GAN-based data augmentation to generate extra dataset instances.
• HPRNet: Hierarchical Point Regression for Whole-Body Human Pose Estimation
  8 Jun 2021 1 repository listed
  Differently, in whole-body pose estimation, the locations of fine-grained keypoints (68 on face, 21 on each hand and 3 on each foot) are estimated as well, which creates a scale variance problem that needs to be…
• Improving Robustness of Facial Landmark Detection by Defending Against Adversarial Attacks
  1 Jan 2021 1 repository listed
  We argue that exploring the weaknesses of the detector so as to remedy them is a promising method of robust facial landmark detection.
• Teacher-Student Asynchronous Learning with Multi-Source Consistency for Facial Landmark Detection
  12 Dec 2020 1 repository listed
  The radical student uses multi-source supervision signals from the same task to update parameters, while the calm teacher uses a single-source supervision signal to update parameters.
• Robust Facial Landmark Detection by Multi-order Multi-constraint Deep Networks
  9 Dec 2020 1 repository listed
  Recently, heatmap regression has been widely explored in facial landmark detection and obtained remarkable performance.
• Deep Structured Prediction for Facial Landmark Detection
  18 Oct 2020 1 repository listed
  Existing deep learning based facial landmark detection methods have achieved excellent performance.
• AnchorFace: An Anchor-based Facial Landmark Detector Across Large Poses
  7 Jul 2020 1 repository listed
  Based on the prediction of each anchor template, we propose to aggregate the results, which can reduce the landmark uncertainty due to the large poses.

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