US Patent Issued to L'OREAL on April 8 for "Lightweight real-time facial alignment network model selection process" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,272,110, issued on April 8, was assigned to L'OREAL (Paris).

"Lightweight real-time facial alignment network model selection process" was invented by Zihao Chen (Toronto), Zhi Yu (Toronto) and Parham Aarabi (Richmond Hill, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "With Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN), facial alignment networks (FAN) have achieved significant accuracy on a wide range of public datasets, which comes along with larger model size and expensive computation costs, making it infeasible to adapt them to real-time applications on edge devices. There is provided a model compression approach on FAN using One-Shot Neural Architectur...