The document summarizes and compares three recent face alignment algorithms: supervised descent method (SDM), local binary features regression (LBF), and face alignment under poses and occlusion (HPO). SDM formulates alignment as regression of local image features to landmark movements. LBF learns local binary features from regions around landmarks and uses global regression. HPO predicts landmark visibility and learns descent directions considering occlusion. The document evaluates the methods on standard datasets, finding SDM and LBF perform well except under extreme conditions, while HPO better handles poses and occlusion.