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The framework was tested in various configurations and compared with other state-of-the-art approaches (direct keypoints regression and glottal segmentation) for both pose estimation, and AGA evaluation. The proposed framework obtained the lowest root mean square error (RMSE) computed on all the keypoints (5.09, 6.56, and 6.40 pixels, respectively) among all the models tested for VF pose estimation. Also for the AGA evaluation, heatmap regression reached the lowest mean average error (MAE) (\n                    <jats:inline-formula>\n                      <jats:alternatives>\n                        <jats:tex-math>$$5.87^{\\circ }$$<\/jats:tex-math>\n                        <mml:math xmlns:mml=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1998\/Math\/MathML\">\n                          <mml:mrow>\n                            <mml:mn>5<\/mml:mn>\n                            <mml:mo>.<\/mml:mo>\n                            <mml:msup>\n                              <mml:mn>87<\/mml:mn>\n                              <mml:mo>\u2218<\/mml:mo>\n                            <\/mml:msup>\n                          <\/mml:mrow>\n                        <\/mml:math>\n                      <\/jats:alternatives>\n                    <\/jats:inline-formula>\n                    ). 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