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Automatic facial skin feature detection for everyone
  DOI :  10.2352/EI.2022.34.8.IMAGE-300  Published OnlineJanuary 2022
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Automatic assessment and understanding of facial skin condition have several applications, including the early detection of underlying health problems, lifestyle and dietary treatment, skin-care product recommendation, etc. S Selfies in the wild serve as an excellent data resource to democratize skin quality assessment, but suffer from several data collection challenges. The key to guaranteeing an accurate assessment is accurate detection of different skin features. We present an automatic facial skin feature detection method that works across a variety of skin tones and age groups for selfies in the wild. To be specific, we annotate the locations of acne, pigmentation, and wrinkle for selfie images with different skin tone colors, severity levels, and lighting conditions. The annotation is conducted in a two-phase scheme with the help of a dermatologist to train volunteers for annotation. We employ Unet++ as the network architecture for feature detection. This work shows that the two-phase annotation scheme can robustly detect the accurate locations of acne, pigmentation, and wrinkle for selfie images with different ethnicities, skin tone colors, severity levels, age groups, and lighting conditions.

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Qian Zheng, Ankur Purwar, Heng Zhao, Guang Liang Lim, Ling Li, Debasish Behera, Qian Wang, Min Tan, Rizhao Cai, Jennifer Werner, Dennis Sng, Maurice van Steensel, Weisi Lin, Alex C. Kot, "Automatic facial skin feature detection for everyonein Proc. IS&T Int’l. Symp. on Electronic Imaging: Imaging and Multimedia Analytics at the Edge,  2022,  pp 300-1 - 300-6,  https://doi.org/10.2352/EI.2022.34.8.IMAGE-300

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