CenterFace: Joint Face Detection and Alignment Using Face as Point

9 Nov 2019  ·  Yuanyuan Xu, Wan Yan, Haixin Sun, Genke Yang, Jiliang Luo ·

Face detection and alignment in unconstrained environment is always deployed on edge devices which have limited memory storage and low computing power. This paper proposes a one-stage method named CenterFace to simultaneously predict facial box and landmark location with real-time speed and high accuracy. The proposed method also belongs to the anchor free category. This is achieved by: (a) learning face existing possibility by the semantic maps, (b) learning bounding box, offsets and five landmarks for each position that potentially contains a face. Specifically, the method can run in real-time on a single CPU core and 200 FPS using NVIDIA 2080TI for VGA-resolution images, and can simultaneously achieve superior accuracy (WIDER FACE Val/Test-Easy: 0.935/0.932, Medium: 0.924/0.921, Hard: 0.875/0.873 and FDDB discontinuous: 0.980, continuous: 0.732). A demo of CenterFace can be available at https://github.com/Star-Clouds/CenterFace.

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Task Dataset Model Metric Name Metric Value Global Rank Benchmark
Face Detection WIDER Face (Easy) CenterFace AP 0.932 # 23
Face Detection WIDER Face (Hard) CenterFace AP 0.873 # 14
Face Detection WIDER Face (Medium) CenterFace AP 0.921 # 24

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