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Deep Face Recognition

1 Jan 2015archive 2025-07-28

O. M. Parkhi, A. Vedaldi, A. Zisserman

The goal of this paper is face recognition -- from either a single photograph or from a set of faces tracked in a video. Recent progress in this area has been due to two factors: (i) end to end learning for the task using a convolutional neural network (CNN), and (ii) the availability of very large scale training datasets. We make two contributions: first, we show how a very large scale dataset (2.6M images, over 2.6K people) can be assembled by a combination of automation and human in the loop, and discuss the trade off between data purity and time; second, we traverse through the complexities of deep network training and face recognition to present methods and procedures to achieve comparable state of the art results on the standard LFW and YTF face benchmarks.

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Face RecognitionFace Verification

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Face Recognition CASIA-WebFace+masks VGG-Face Accuracy 79.65 #6 of 6 Archive leaderboard report
Face Recognition CelebA+masks VGG-Face Accuracy 84.56 #6 of 6 Archive leaderboard report
Face Verification Labeled Faces in the Wild VGG-Face Accuracy 98.78% #4 of 7 Archive leaderboard report
Face Verification YouTube Faces DB VGG-Face Accuracy 97.40% #4 of 12 Archive leaderboard report

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