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Heatmap-based methods play an important role in anatomical landmark detection. However, most current heatmap-based methods assume that the distributions of all landmarks are the same and the distribution of each landmark is isotropic, which…
With the emergence of service robots and surveillance cameras, dynamic face recognition (DFR) in wild has received much attention in recent years. Face detection and head pose estimation are two important steps for DFR. Very often, the pose…
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Medical image segmentation of gadolinium enhancement magnetic resonance imaging (GE MRI) is an important task in clinical applications. However, manual annotation is time-consuming and requires specialized expertise. Semi-supervised…
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Identifying anatomical landmarks in 3D dental models is essential for orthodontic treatment, yet manual placement is labor-intensive and requires expert knowledge. While machine learning methods have been proposed for automatic landmark…
Effective integration of local and global contextual information is crucial for semantic segmentation and dense image labeling. We develop two encoder-decoder based deep learning architectures to address this problem. We first propose a…
Active Shape Model (ASM) is a statistical model of object shapes that represents a target structure. ASM can guide machine learning algorithms to fit a set of points representing an object (e.g., face) onto an image. This paper presents a…
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