Facial pore segmentation results can provide reliable evidence to simulate post-product pore conditions and provide product recommendations.However,accurately segmenting pores is challenging due to their small size,we...Facial pore segmentation results can provide reliable evidence to simulate post-product pore conditions and provide product recommendations.However,accurately segmenting pores is challenging due to their small size,weak boundaries and dense distribution.It is also difficult to acquire precise annotation.Therefore,we formulate pore segmentation as a two-stage,weakly supervised task using both traditional and deep learning methods without human annotation.We propose a novel method called the pore segmentation network(PS-Net).Specifically,it contains pore feature extraction with coarse labels generated by a traditional method,as well as fine segmentation with progressively updated pseudo labels.Since pores provide high-frequency information about faces,we propose a high-frequency attention module that emphasizes low-level features.Moreover,we design a Bayesian module to identify pore shapes in high-level features.We establish a large-scale facial pore dataset with coarse labels that were generated via the difference of Gaussian(DoG)Pore method.PS-Net achieves the best performance on this dataset,proving its superiority compared with existing state-of-the-art segmentation methods.展开更多
基金supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(No.61975056)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.62101191)the Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality(Nos.20440713100,21ZR1420800,and 22DZ2229004).
文摘Facial pore segmentation results can provide reliable evidence to simulate post-product pore conditions and provide product recommendations.However,accurately segmenting pores is challenging due to their small size,weak boundaries and dense distribution.It is also difficult to acquire precise annotation.Therefore,we formulate pore segmentation as a two-stage,weakly supervised task using both traditional and deep learning methods without human annotation.We propose a novel method called the pore segmentation network(PS-Net).Specifically,it contains pore feature extraction with coarse labels generated by a traditional method,as well as fine segmentation with progressively updated pseudo labels.Since pores provide high-frequency information about faces,we propose a high-frequency attention module that emphasizes low-level features.Moreover,we design a Bayesian module to identify pore shapes in high-level features.We establish a large-scale facial pore dataset with coarse labels that were generated via the difference of Gaussian(DoG)Pore method.PS-Net achieves the best performance on this dataset,proving its superiority compared with existing state-of-the-art segmentation methods.
