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Funding acquisition, project administration, resources, supervision, writing-review and editing: Sawada H
Software: Chen Y, Shen J
Writing-original draft: Chen Y

Availability of data and materials
The COCO dataset can be accessed through the following link: https://paperswithcode.com/dataset/coco.

Financial support and sponsorship
This work was supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) (20H04214) and
the Hagiwara Foundation of Japan 3rd Research Grant.

Conflicts of interest
All authors declared that there are no conflicts of interest.

Ethical approval and consent to participate
In this study, the COCO dataset was used, which was a large-scale object detection, segmentation, key-
point detection, and captioning dataset provided by Microsoft at https://paperswithcode.com/dataset/
coco. The author stated that all photographs showing faces used in this study were used with permission.

Consent for publication
Not applicable.

Copyright
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