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CenterFace: Joint Face Detection and Alignment Using Face as Point

9 Nov 2019arXiv:1911.03599archive 2025-07-28

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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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Face Detection WIDER Face (Easy) CenterFace AP 0.932 #22 of 27 Archive leaderboard report
Face Detection WIDER Face (Hard) CenterFace AP 0.873 #13 of 40 Archive leaderboard report
Face Detection WIDER Face (Medium) CenterFace AP 0.921 #23 of 37 Archive leaderboard report

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