Teacher Supervises Students How to Learn From Partially Labeled Images for Facial Landmark Detection

ICCV 2019  ·  Xuanyi Dong, Yi Yang ·

Facial landmark detection aims to localize the anatomically defined points of human faces. In this paper, we study facial landmark detection from partially labeled facial images. 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 samples and partial pseudo labeled samples. In this way, the detector can learn from both labeled and unlabeled data to become robust. In this paper, we propose an interaction mechanism between a teacher and two students to generate more reliable pseudo labels for unlabeled data, which are beneficial to semi-supervised facial landmark detection. Specifically, the two students are instantiated as dual detectors. The teacher learns to judge the quality of the pseudo labels generated by the students and filter out unqualified samples before the retraining stage. In this way, the student detectors get feedback from their teacher and are retrained by premium data generated by itself. Since the two students are trained by different samples, a combination of their predictions will be more robust as the final prediction compared to either prediction. Extensive experiments on 300-W and AFLW benchmarks show that the interactions between teacher and students contribute to better utilization of the unlabeled data and achieves state-of-the-art performance.

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 Ranked #1 on Facial Landmark Detection on 300W (Full) (using extra training data)

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Task Dataset Model Metric Name Metric Value Global Rank Uses Extra
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Facial Landmark Detection 300W TS3 NME 3.49 # 9
Facial Landmark Detection 300W (Full) TS3 Mean NME 3.49 # 1

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