Towards Unbiased Label Distribution Learning for Facial Pose Estimation Using Anisotropic Spherical Gaussian

July 20, 2022

Abstract

Facial pose estimation refers to the task of predicting face orientation from a single RGB image. It is an important research topic with a wide range of applications in computer vision. Label distribution learning (LDL) based methods have been recently proposed for facial pose estimation, which achieve promising results. However, there are two major issues in existing LDL methods. First, the expectations of label distributions are biased, leading to a \textit{biased pose estimation}. Second, \textit{fixed} distribution parameters are applied for all learning samples, severely limiting the model capability. In this paper, we propose an Anisotropic Spherical Gaussian (ASG)-based LDL approach for facial pose estimation. In particular, our approach adopts the spherical Gaussian distribution on a unit sphere which constantly generates \textit{unbiased expectation}. Meanwhile, we introduce a new loss function that allows the network to learn the distribution parameter for each learning sample \textit{flexibly}. Extensive experimental results show that our method sets new state-of-the-art records on AFLW2000 and BIWI datasets.

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AUTHORS

Written by

Qifan Wang

Dongfang Liu

Yingjie Victor Chen

Zhiwen Cao

Publisher

ECCV

Research Topics

Computer Vision

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