Tracking is done for 19 different facial points on successive frames, whose coordinates are returned for each frame and can be useful for further facial expressions' processing. Face detection is in fact a usual preprocessing step in many applications such as face recognition, human-computer interaction, facial expression recognition, surveillance and gaze/pose detection.
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