“…The range of applications that deal with structured output data is large. One can cite, among others, image labeling [12,26,31,35,49,16,24,39], statistical natural language processing (NLP) [17,33,38,37], bioinformatics [18,43], speech processing [34,47] and handwriting recognition [15,40]. Another example which is considered in the evaluation of our proposal in this paper is the facial landmark detection problem.…”