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The RepVGG-A2 lightweight framework is used for feature extraction, and by adding a multi-level feature fusion module and a coordinate attention mechanism with residual connection, to improve the network\u2019s ability to perceive contextual information and pay attention to features. The model\u2019s accuracy was further improved by replacing the network activation function and improving the loss function. Experiments on the BIWI dataset 7:3 dividing the training and test sets show that the average absolute error of HPE for the proposed network model is 2.41. Trained on the dataset 300W_LP and tested on the AFLW2000 and BIWI datasets, the average absolute errors of HPE of the proposed network model are 4.34 and 3.93. 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