Soft Landmark
Soft landmark detection focuses on identifying key points or regions within images or 3D models, often for tasks like object localization, navigation, or facial analysis. Current research emphasizes robust methods that handle noisy or incomplete data, leveraging techniques like graph-based matching, vision-language models, and deep learning architectures such as transformers and diffusion models to improve accuracy and efficiency. These advancements are crucial for applications ranging from autonomous navigation and robotics to medical imaging and human-computer interaction, enabling more accurate and reliable analysis of complex visual data. The development of efficient and accurate soft landmark detection methods is driving progress in various fields by improving the performance of systems that rely on precise visual understanding.
Papers
Unsupervised Landmark Discovery Using Consistency Guided Bottleneck
Mamona Awan, Muhammad Haris Khan, Sanoojan Baliah, Muhammad Ahmad Waseem, Salman Khan, Fahad Shahbaz Khan, Arif Mahmood
LineMarkNet: Line Landmark Detection for Valet Parking
Zizhang Wu, Yuanzhu Gan, Tianhao Xu, Rui Tang, Jian Pu
Fully automated landmarking and facial segmentation on 3D photographs
Bo Berends, Freek Bielevelt, Ruud Schreurs, Shankeeth Vinayahalingam, Thomas Maal, Guido de Jong