In this paper, we present a random-forest based fast cascaded regression model for face alignment, via a novel local feature. Our proposed local lightweight feature, namely intimacy definition feature (IDF), is more discriminative than landmark pose-indexed feature, more efficient than histogram of oriented gradients (HOG) feature and scale-invariant feature transform (SIFT) feature, and more compact than the local binary feature (LBF). Experimental results show that our approach achieves state-of-the-art performance when tested on the most challenging datasets. Compared with an LBF-based algorithm, our method can achieve about two times the speed-up and more than 20% improvement, in terms of alignment accuracy measurement, and save an order of magnitude of memory requirement.
@article{arxiv.1611.06642,
title = {Cascaded Face Alignment via Intimacy Definition Feature},
author = {Hailiang Li and Kin-Man Lam and Edmond M. Y. Chiu and Kangheng Wu and Zhibin Lei},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1611.06642},
year = {2017}
}