A Fully End-to-End Cascaded CNN for Facial Landmark Detection

Facial landmark detection plays an important role in computer vision. It is a challenging problem due to various poses, exaggerated expressions and partial occlusions. In this work, we propose a Fully End-to-End Cascaded Convolutional Neural Network (FEC-CNN) for more promising facial landmark detection. Specifically, FEC-CNN includes several sub- CNNs, which progressively refine the shape prediction via finer and finer modeling, and the overall network is optimized fully end-to-end. Experiments on three challenging datasets, IBUG, 300W competition and AFLW, demonstrate that the proposed method is robust to large poses, exaggerated expressions and partial occlusions. The proposed FEC-CNN significantly improves the accuracy of landmark prediction.