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Auteurs principaux: Wang, Meng, Dai, Wenjing, Zhang, Jiawan, Guo, Xiaojie
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Publié: 2026
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Accès en ligne:https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.01950
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author Wang, Meng
Dai, Wenjing
Zhang, Jiawan
Guo, Xiaojie
author_facet Wang, Meng
Dai, Wenjing
Zhang, Jiawan
Guo, Xiaojie
contents Although recent approaches to face normal estimation have achieved promising results, their effectiveness heavily depends on large-scale paired data for training. This paper concentrates on relieving this requirement via developing a coarse-to-fine normal estimator. Concretely, our method first trains a neat model from a small dataset to produce coarse face normals that perform as guidance (called exemplars) for the following refinement. A self-attention mechanism is employed to capture long-range dependencies, thus remedying severe local artifacts left in estimated coarse facial normals. Then, a refinement network is customized for the sake of mapping input face images together with corresponding exemplars to fine-grained high-quality facial normals. Such a logical function split can significantly cut the requirement of massive paired data and computational resource. Extensive experiments and ablation studies are conducted to demonstrate the efficacy of our design and reveal its superiority over state-of-the-art methods in terms of both training expense as well as estimation quality. Our code and models are open-sourced at: https://github.com/AutoHDR/FNR2R.git.
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spellingShingle Face Normal Estimation from Rags to Riches
Wang, Meng
Dai, Wenjing
Zhang, Jiawan
Guo, Xiaojie
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Although recent approaches to face normal estimation have achieved promising results, their effectiveness heavily depends on large-scale paired data for training. This paper concentrates on relieving this requirement via developing a coarse-to-fine normal estimator. Concretely, our method first trains a neat model from a small dataset to produce coarse face normals that perform as guidance (called exemplars) for the following refinement. A self-attention mechanism is employed to capture long-range dependencies, thus remedying severe local artifacts left in estimated coarse facial normals. Then, a refinement network is customized for the sake of mapping input face images together with corresponding exemplars to fine-grained high-quality facial normals. Such a logical function split can significantly cut the requirement of massive paired data and computational resource. Extensive experiments and ablation studies are conducted to demonstrate the efficacy of our design and reveal its superiority over state-of-the-art methods in terms of both training expense as well as estimation quality. Our code and models are open-sourced at: https://github.com/AutoHDR/FNR2R.git.
title Face Normal Estimation from Rags to Riches
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.01950