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Semi-Supervised Face Frontalization in the Wild

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Zhihong Zhang
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Ruiyang Liang
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Xu Chen *
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Xuexin Xu
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Guosheng Hu
左旺孟 (Wangmeng Zuo)
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Edwin R. Hancock
DOI:10.1109/TIFS.2020.3025412delete
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Synthesizing a frontal view face from a single nonfrontal image, i.e. face frontalization, is a task of practical importance in a wide range of facial image analysis applications. However, to train the frontalization model in a supervised manner, most existing face frontalization methods rely on the availability of nonfrontal-frontal face pairs (typically from the Multi-PIE dataset) captured in a constrained environment. Such approaches, in return, limit the generalizability of their application to unconstrained scenarios. Unfortunately, although a large amount of in-the-wild face datasets are available, they cannot easily be utilized for face frontalization training since the nonfrontal and frontal facial images are not paired. To train a frontalization network which generalizes well to both constrained and unconstrained environments, we propose a semi-supervised learning framework which effectively uses both (labeled) indoor and (unlabeled) outdoor faces. Specifically, to achieve this goal, this article presents a Cycle-Consistent Face Frontalization Generative Adversarial Network (CCFF-GAN) which consists of both (1) the supervised and (2) the unsupervised components. For (1), we use the indoor paired (labeled) data to learn a roughly accurate frontalization network which may not generalize well to outdoor (in-the-wild) scenarios. For (2), to cope with the generalization issue, the unsupervised part uses the unpaired (unlabeled) images under the perceptual cycle consistency constraint in the semantic feature space to generalize the network from controlled (indoor) to uncontrolled (outdoor) environment. Extensive experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method in comparison with the state-of-the-art face frontalization methods, especially under the in-the-wild scenarios.
Keywords:
Faces
Training
Face recognition
Three-dimensional displays
Generative adversarial networks
Machine learning
Solid modeling
Face frontalization
face synthesis
face recognition
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IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security cover
IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security
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