“…In this section, we compare the proposed LOTR with several state-of-the-art methods, including Look-at-Boundary (LAB) [38], Wing loss [39], adaptive Wing loss (AWing) [54], LUVLi [47], Gaussian vector (GV) [34], and Heatmap-In-Heatmap (HIH) [53]. As shown in Table 2, our proposed LOTR-HR+ achieves an NME of 4.31%, clearly outperforming LAB, Wing, AWing, and LUVLi methods, and yields an AUC of 60.14%, surpassing all state-of-the-arts by a large margin (0.44-6.91 points).…”