Semi-automatic Facial Key-Point Dataset Creation

Miroslav Hlavác, Ivan Gruber, Milos Zelezný, Alexey Karpov

Abstract: This paper presents a semi-automatic method for creating a large scale facial key-point dataset from a small number of annotated images. The method consists of annotating the facial images by hand, training Active Appearance Model (AAM) from the annotated images and then using the AAM to annotate a large number of additional images for the purpose of training a neural network. The images from the AAM are then re-annotated by the neural network and used to validate the precision of the proposed neural network detections. The neural network architecture is presented including the training parameters.