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LFW (Labeled Faces in the Wild)

Introduced in Labeled faces in the wild: A database for studying face recognition in unconstrained environments archive 2025-07-28

The LFW dataset contains 13,233 images of faces collected from the web. This dataset consists of the 5749 identities with 1680 people with two or more images. In the standard LFW evaluation protocol the verification accuracies are reported on 6000 face pairs.

Source: A Performance Evaluation of Loss Functions for Deep Face Recognition Image Source: http://vis-www.cs.umass.edu/lfw

Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28

All 12 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
Face Recognition LFW GhostFaceNetV2-1 (MS1MV3) Accuracy 0.998667 GhostFaceNets: Lightweight Face Recognition Model From... serengil/deepface +6 16 Compare
Blind Face Restoration LFW DiffBIR FID 39.58 DiffBIR: Towards Blind Image Restoration with Generative... xpixelgroup/diffbir +1 9 Compare
Face Verification Labeled Faces in the Wild ArcFace + MS1MV2 + R100, Accuracy 99.83% ArcFace: Additive Angular Margin Loss for Deep Face Recognition deepinsight/insightface +99 7 Compare
Lightweight Face Recognition LFW EdgeFace - S (g=0.5) Accuracy 0.9978 EdgeFace: Efficient Face Recognition Model for Edge Devices otroshi/edgeface +2 6 Compare
Face Verification LFW ArcFaceR50 + EM-FRR BFAR 33.65 Mitigating Gender Bias in Face Recognition Using the von... JRConti/EthicalModule_vMF 3 Compare
Synthetic Face Recognition LFW SynthDistill Accuracy 0.9952 SynthDistill: Face Recognition with Knowledge... otroshi/synthdistill +1 3 Compare
Face Recognition LFW (Online Open Set) FaceNet+Adaptive Threshold Average Accuracy (10 times) 76.46 Data-specific Adaptive Threshold for Face Recognition... Faceplugin-ltd/FaceRecognition-Android +1 2 Compare
3D Face Modelling LFW DeepFace 1-of-100 Accuracy 70 DeepFace: Closing the Gap to Human-Level Performance in... serengil/deepface +3 1 Compare
Face Anonymization LFW FIVA ID retrieval 0.000 FIVA: Facial Image and Video Anonymization and... — 1 Compare
Face Quality Assessement LFW SER-FIQ (same model) on ArcFace Equal Error Rate 0.007 SER-FIQ: Unsupervised Estimation of Face Image Quality... pterhoer/FaceImageQuality +4 1 Compare
Quantization LFW Accuracy 99.8 QuantFace: Towards Lightweight Face Recognition by... fdbtrs/QuantFace 1 Compare
Unsupervised face recognition LFW USynthFace Accuracy (%) 92.23 Unsupervised Face Recognition using Unlabeled Synthetic Data fdbtrs/Unsupervised-Face-Recognition-using-Unlabeled-Synthetic-Data 1 Compare

Papers archive 2025-07-28

30 shown of 35 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 820. 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
SymFace: Additional Facial Symmetry Loss for Deep Face Recognition 0 1 18 Sep 2024 not harvested
FIVA: Facial Image and Video Anonymization and Anonymization Defense 0 1 8 Sep 2023 not harvested
DiffBIR: Towards Blind Image Restoration with Generative Diffusion Prior 2 1 29 Aug 2023 not harvested
SynthDistill: Face Recognition with Knowledge Distillation from Synthetic Data 2 1 28 Aug 2023 ran 1 of 1 samples (0 unverified; 1 pointer-only for licence)
Dual Associated Encoder for Face Restoration 1 1 14 Aug 2023 ran 3 of 5 samples (2 unverified; 5 pointer-only for licence)
IDiff-Face: Synthetic-based Face Recognition through Fizzy Identity-Conditioned Diffusion Models 1 1 9 Aug 2023 ran 19 of 21 samples (2 unverified; 21 pointer-only for licence)
EdgeFace: Efficient Face Recognition Model for Edge Devices 3 4 4 Jul 2023 ran 2 of 2 samples (0 unverified; 2 pointer-only for licence)
GhostFaceNets: Lightweight Face Recognition Model From Cheap Operations 7 1 10 Apr 2023 not harvested
MagicEye: An Intelligent Wearable Towards Independent Living of Visually Impaired 1 1 24 Mar 2023 not harvested
PIC-Score: Probabilistic Interpretable Comparison Score for Optimal Matching Confidence in Single- and Multi-Biometric (Face) Recognition 3 3 22 Nov 2022 not harvested
Unsupervised Face Recognition using Unlabeled Synthetic Data 1 1 14 Nov 2022 not harvested
Mitigating Gender Bias in Face Recognition Using the von Mises-Fisher Mixture Model 1 3 24 Oct 2022 ran 1 of 2 samples (1 unverified; 2 pointer-only for licence)
DigiFace-1M: 1 Million Digital Face Images for Face Recognition 1 1 5 Oct 2022 not harvested
Octuplet Loss: Make Face Recognition Robust to Image Resolution 2 1 14 Jul 2022 not harvested
Towards Robust Blind Face Restoration with Codebook Lookup Transformer 1 7 22 Jun 2022 not harvested
QuantFace: Towards Lightweight Face Recognition by Synthetic Data Low-bit Quantization 1 1 21 Jun 2022 not harvested
AdaFace: Quality Adaptive Margin for Face Recognition 9 2 3 Apr 2022 ran 17 of 22 samples (5 unverified; 11 pointer-only for licence)
QMagFace: Simple and Accurate Quality-Aware Face Recognition 1 1 26 Nov 2021 not harvested
PocketNet: Extreme Lightweight Face Recognition Network using Neural Architecture Search and Multi-Step Knowledge Distillation 1 1 24 Aug 2021 not harvested
MixFaceNets: Extremely Efficient Face Recognition Networks 1 1 27 Jul 2021 not harvested
Dynamic Class Queue for Large Scale Face Recognition In the Wild 1 1 24 May 2021 not harvested
DiscFace: Minimum Discrepancy Learning for Deep Face Recognition 0 1 30 Nov 2020 not harvested
Deep Polynomial Neural Networks 5 1 20 Jun 2020 not harvested
SER-FIQ: Unsupervised Estimation of Face Image Quality Based on Stochastic Embedding Robustness 5 1 20 Mar 2020 not harvested
Circle Loss: A Unified Perspective of Pair Similarity Optimization 16 1 25 Feb 2020 ran 2 of 2 samples (0 unverified; 1 pointer-only for licence)
SeesawFaceNets: sparse and robust face verification model for mobile platform 6 1 24 Aug 2019 ran 7 of 17 samples (10 unverified; 5 pointer-only for licence)
Data-specific Adaptive Threshold for Face Recognition and Authentication 2 2 26 Oct 2018 not harvested
MobileFaceNets: Efficient CNNs for Accurate Real-Time Face Verification on Mobile Devices 17 1 20 Apr 2018 ran 14 of 40 samples (26 unverified; 9 pointer-only for licence)
ArcFace: Additive Angular Margin Loss for Deep Face Recognition 100 1 23 Jan 2018 ran 16 of 21 samples (5 unverified; 14 pointer-only for licence)
OpenFace: A general-purpose face recognition library with mobile applications 3 1 1 Jan 2016 not harvested

The full list of 35 is in the JSON twin.

Dataset loaders archive 2025-07-28

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

Tasks archive 2025-07-28

License archive 2025-07-28

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Modalities archive 2025-07-28

Languages archive 2025-07-28

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Variants archive 2025-07-28

  • LFW
  • Labeled Faces in the Wild
  • LFW (Online Open Set)

3 variant names, as the archive lists them.

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