FAHCD-Net: Frequency-Adaptive Heatmap-Conditional Diffusion Networks for Robust Facial Landmark Detection

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2609.16842v1
• Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2026 08:36:20 GMT
• Title: FAHCD-Net: Frequency-Adaptive Heatmap-Conditional Diffusion Networks for Robust Facial Landmark Detection
• Abstract summary: We propose Frequency-Adaptive Heatmap-Conditional Diffusion Network (FAHCD-Net)<n>FAHCD-Net integrates a Frequency-Adaptive Heatmap-Conditional Diffusion (FAHCD) model with a Smoothness Regularization (SR) loss in a cascaded framework.<n>Experiments on popular benchmarks demonstrate the effectiveness and robustness of the proposed method.
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• Abstract: Facial Landmark Detection(FLD) is a crucial task in various applications and has achieved significant advancements in recent years. However, current FLD methods still struggle under challenging conditions, where facial structural variations, information loss, and noise interference severely compromise the integrity and accuracy of learned facial features. To address these issues, we propose Frequency-Adaptive Heatmap-Conditional Diffusion Network (FAHCD-Net), which integrates a Frequency-Adaptive Heatmap-Conditional Diffusion (FAHCD) model with a Smoothness Regularization (SR) loss in a cascaded framework. Specifically, the FAHCD model incorporates a Hierarchical Frequency Adaptation (HFA) module designed to suppress redundant high-frequency noise through multi-layer frequency decomposition and adaptive reconstruction, thereby preserving essential facial structures. Additionally, the SR loss is proposed to further mitigate the interference of high-frequency noise and enhance the smoothness of the generated landmark heatmaps. By cascading the FAHCD model with the SR loss, FAHCD-Net effectively leverages both statistical and frequency-based distribution characteristics of the data to progressively generate more accurate landmark heatmaps from noisy inputs. Extensive experiments on popular benchmarks demonstrate the effectiveness and robustness of the proposed method, achieving state-of-the-art performance in FLD tasks under challenging scenarios. The source code is available at https://github.com/HJWKryptonite/FAHCD-Net.

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