Automated Detection of Cat Facial Landmarks

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Main Authors: Martvel, George, Shimshoni, Ilan, Zamansky, Anna
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Published: 2023
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author Martvel, George
Shimshoni, Ilan
Zamansky, Anna
author_facet Martvel, George
Shimshoni, Ilan
Zamansky, Anna
contents The field of animal affective computing is rapidly emerging, and analysis of facial expressions is a crucial aspect. One of the most significant challenges that researchers in the field currently face is the scarcity of high-quality, comprehensive datasets that allow the development of models for facial expressions analysis. One of the possible approaches is the utilisation of facial landmarks, which has been shown for humans and animals. In this paper we present a novel dataset of cat facial images annotated with bounding boxes and 48 facial landmarks grounded in cat facial anatomy. We also introduce a landmark detection convolution neural network-based model which uses a magnifying ensembe method. Our model shows excellent performance on cat faces and is generalizable to human facial landmark detection.
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spellingShingle Automated Detection of Cat Facial Landmarks
Martvel, George
Shimshoni, Ilan
Zamansky, Anna
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
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The field of animal affective computing is rapidly emerging, and analysis of facial expressions is a crucial aspect. One of the most significant challenges that researchers in the field currently face is the scarcity of high-quality, comprehensive datasets that allow the development of models for facial expressions analysis. One of the possible approaches is the utilisation of facial landmarks, which has been shown for humans and animals. In this paper we present a novel dataset of cat facial images annotated with bounding boxes and 48 facial landmarks grounded in cat facial anatomy. We also introduce a landmark detection convolution neural network-based model which uses a magnifying ensembe method. Our model shows excellent performance on cat faces and is generalizable to human facial landmark detection.
title Automated Detection of Cat Facial Landmarks
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
I.5.4
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.09793