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RetinaFace: Single-stage Dense Face Localisation in the Wild

2 May 2019arXiv:1905.00641archive 2025-07-28

Jiankang Deng, Jia Guo, Yuxiang Zhou, Jinke Yu, Irene Kotsia, Stefanos Zafeiriou

Face Analysis Project on MXNet

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Face Detection WIDER Face (Hard) RetinaFace+Lpts+Lpixel AP 0.91857 #3 of 40 Archive leaderboard report
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