HeLPNet: Facial structure-aware landmark coordinate regression with heatmap-guided local patch embedding

Jeongmin Yu, Jongseong Bae, Ha Young Kim

Abstract: Highlights•Design a synergistic fusion of coordinate and heatmap regression for face alignment.•Reduce normal direction errors with tangent direction anisotropic Gaussian heatmap.•Experimental results highlight the effectiveness of our method, especially in the FR.

External IDs:doi:10.1016/j.neucom.2025.130860