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ACFD: Asymmetric Cartoon Face Detector
Bin Zhang, Jian Li, Yabiao Wang, Zhipeng Cui, Yili Xia, Chengjie Wang, Jilin Li, Feiyue Huang
Cartoon face detection is a more challenging task than human face detection due to many difficult scenarios is involved. Aiming at the characteristics of cartoon faces, such as huge differences within the intra-faces, in this paper, we propose an asymmetric cartoon face detector, named ACFD. Specifically, it consists of the following modules: a novel backbone VoVNetV3 comprised of several asymmetric one-shot aggregation modules (AOSA), asymmetric bi-directional feature pyramid network (ABi-FPN), dynamic anchor match strategy (DAM) and the corresponding margin binary classification loss (MBC). In particular, to generate features with diverse receptive fields, multi-scale pyramid features are extracted by VoVNetV3, and then fused and enhanced simultaneously by ABi-FPN for handling the faces in some extreme poses and have disparate aspect ratios. Besides, DAM is used to match enough high-quality anchors for each face, and MBC is for the strong power of discrimination. With the effectiveness of these modules, our ACFD achieves the 1st place on the detection track of 2020 iCartoon Face Challenge under the constraints of model size 200MB, inference time 50ms per image, and without any pretrained models.
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