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AFLW (Annotated Facial Landmarks in the Wild)

Introduced in Annotated Facial Landmarks in the Wild: A large-scale, real-world database for facial landmark localization1 Jan 2011 archive 2025-07-28

The Annotated Facial Landmarks in the Wild (AFLW) is a large-scale collection of annotated face images gathered from Flickr, exhibiting a large variety in appearance (e.g., pose, expression, ethnicity, age, gender) as well as general imaging and environmental conditions. In total about 25K faces are annotated with up to 21 landmarks per image.

Source: Nose, Eyes and Ears: Head Pose Estimation by Locating Facial Keypoints

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Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28

All 11 leaderboards whose dataset resolves to this page shown (sort by any header). "First row" is the archive's own first row at snapshot, in the archive's row order; nothing here re-ranks and metric direction is not asserted.

First row (archive order)PaperCode
Head Pose Estimation AFLW MNN MAE 3.22 Multi-task head pose estimation in-the-wild bobetocalo/bobetocalo_pami20 6 Compare
Facial Landmark Detection AFLW-Full FiFA Mean NME 0.92 Fiducial Focus Augmentation for Facial Landmark Detection — 5 Compare
Unsupervised Facial Landmark Detection AFLW (Zhang CVPR 2018 crops) Conditional Image Generation NME 6.31 Unsupervised Learning of Object Landmarks through... tomasjakab/imm +1 4 Compare
Face Alignment AFLW SynergyNet Mean NME 4.06 Synergy between 3DMM and 3D Landmarks for Accurate 3D... tomas-gajarsky/facetorch +3 3 Compare
Face Alignment AFLW-LFPA FPN Mean NME 2.93% Joint 3D Face Reconstruction and Dense Alignment with... YadiraF/PRNet +3 3 Compare
Facial Landmark Detection AFLW-Front FiFA Mean NME 0.80 Fiducial Focus Augmentation for Facial Landmark Detection — 3 Compare
Unsupervised Facial Landmark Detection AFLW-MTFL DVE NME 7.53 Unsupervised Learning of Landmarks by Descriptor Vector Exchange jamt9000/DVE 3 Compare
Face Alignment AFLW-Full Binary Face Alignment Mean NME 2.85 Binarized Convolutional Landmark Localizers for Human... 1adrianb/binary-human-pose-estimation +2 2 Compare
Face Alignment AFLW-PIFA (21 points) Face alignment NME 2.63% Convolutional aggregation of local evidence for large... — 1 Compare
Face Alignment AFLW-PIFA (34 points) Face alignment NME 2.96% Convolutional aggregation of local evidence for large... — 1 Compare
Low-Light Image Enhancement AFLW (Zhang CVPR 2018 crops) enligh 14 gestures accuracy 1 EnlightenGAN: Deep Light Enhancement without Paired Supervision kritiksoman/GIMP-ML +7 1 Compare

Papers archive 2025-07-28

24 shown of 24 papers with a leaderboard row on this dataset's benchmarks, newest first. The archive's own "papers using this dataset" list was never published, so this is the benchmark-backed subset; the archive's count for this dataset is 154. The Syntology column is from Syntology's graph (read 2026-09-24), stated per sample; it is not part of any archive number.

DateSamples run Syntology
Fiducial Focus Augmentation for Facial Landmark Detection 0 2 23 Feb 2024 not harvested
Synergy between 3DMM and 3D Landmarks for Accurate 3D Facial Geometry 4 1 19 Oct 2021 not harvested
Multi-task head pose estimation in-the-wild 1 1 22 Dec 2020 not harvested
Towards Fast, Accurate and Stable 3D Dense Face Alignment 3 1 21 Sep 2020 ran 6 of 10 samples (4 unverified; 3 pointer-only for licence)
AnchorFace: An Anchor-based Facial Landmark Detector Across Large Poses 1 3 7 Jul 2020 not harvested
Unsupervised Learning of Landmarks by Descriptor Vector Exchange 1 2 18 Aug 2019 not harvested
EnlightenGAN: Deep Light Enhancement without Paired Supervision 8 1 17 Jun 2019 not harvested
Face Alignment using a 3D Deeply-initialized Ensemble of Regression Trees 1 1 5 Feb 2019 not harvested
Hybrid coarse-fine classification for head pose estimation 1 1 21 Jan 2019 not harvested
Nose, eyes and ears: Head pose estimation by locating facial keypoints 1 2 3 Dec 2018 not harvested
A Deeply-initialized Coarse-to-fine Ensemble of Regression Trees for Face Alignment 1 1 1 Sep 2018 not harvested
Hierarchical binary CNNs for landmark localization with limited resources 1 1 14 Aug 2018 not harvested
Unsupervised Learning of Object Landmarks through Conditional Image Generation 2 1 20 Jun 2018 ran 3 of 3 samples (0 unverified; 3 pointer-only for licence)
Unsupervised Discovery of Object Landmarks as Structural Representations 1 1 12 Apr 2018 ran 0 of 1 samples (1 unverified)
Face Alignment in Full Pose Range: A 3D Total Solution 2 1 2 Apr 2018 ran 2 of 3 samples (1 unverified)
Joint 3D Face Reconstruction and Dense Alignment with Position Map Regression Network 4 1 21 Mar 2018 ran 0 of 10 samples (10 unverified)
Style Aggregated Network for Facial Landmark Detection 1 2 12 Mar 2018 not harvested
Fine-Grained Head Pose Estimation Without Keypoints 14 1 2 Oct 2017 ran 3 of 3 samples (0 unverified)
Dense Face Alignment 1 1 5 Sep 2017 not harvested
Unsupervised learning of object frames by dense equivariant image labelling 0 2 9 Jun 2017 not harvested
Unsupervised learning of object landmarks by factorized spatial embeddings 1 1 5 May 2017 not harvested
Binarized Convolutional Landmark Localizers for Human Pose Estimation and Face Alignment with Limited Resources 3 1 2 Mar 2017 not harvested
Deep Label Distribution Learning with Label Ambiguity 2 1 6 Nov 2016 not harvested
Convolutional aggregation of local evidence for large pose face alignment 0 2 21 Sep 2016 not harvested

Dataset loaders archive 2025-07-28

open-mmlab/mmposeopen-mmlab/mmposepytorch

1 loader as listed in the archive; links are outbound and not re-checked here.

Tasks archive 2025-07-28

Face AlignmentLow-Light Image EnhancementFacial Landmark DetectionHead Pose EstimationUnsupervised Facial Landmark Detection

License archive 2025-07-28

Custom (non-commercial)

Modalities archive 2025-07-28

Images

Languages archive 2025-07-28

No language tagged.

Variants archive 2025-07-28

  • AFLW-PIFA (34 points)
  • AFLW-PIFA (21 points)
  • AFLW-MTFL
  • AFLW-LFPA
  • AFLW-Full
  • AFLW-Front
  • AFLW (Zhang CVPR 2018 crops)
  • AFLW

8 variant names, as the archive lists them.

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