penincillin / DREAM

This is the public repository for our accepted CVPR 2018 paper "Pose-Robust Face Recognition via Deep Residual Equivariant Mapping"
http://mmlab.ie.cuhk.edu.hk/projects/DREAM/
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What is the main role of face alignment ? #40

Closed CallmeZhouxiaolun closed 5 years ago

CallmeZhouxiaolun commented 5 years ago

hello, I'm a little confused. What is the main role of face alignment before training?

penincillin commented 5 years ago

Face alignment could be viewed as a normalization process to make faces lie in similar position of the images, thus facilitate the convergence of the neural network