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WIDER FACE: A Face Detection Benchmark
Shuo Yang, Ping Luo, Chen Change Loy, Xiaoou Tang
Face detection is one of the most studied topics in the computer vision community. Much of the progresses have been made by the availability of face detection benchmark datasets. We show that there is a gap between current face detection performance and the real world requirements. To facilitate future face detection research, we introduce the WIDER FACE dataset, which is 10 times larger than existing datasets. The dataset contains rich annotations, including occlusions, poses, event categories, and face bounding boxes. Faces in the proposed dataset are extremely challenging due to large variations in scale, pose and occlusion, as shown in Fig. 1. Furthermore, we show that WIDER FACE dataset is an effective training source for face detection. We benchmark several representative detection systems, providing an overview of state-of-the-art performance and propose a solution to deal with large scale variation. Finally, we discuss common failure cases that worth to be further investigated. Dataset can be downloaded at: mmlab.ie.cuhk.edu.hk/projects/WIDERFace
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| Task | Dataset | Model | Metric | Value | Rank at snapshot | Leaderboard | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Face Detection | WIDER Face (Hard) | Multiscale Cascade CNN | AP | 0.400 | #37 of 40 | Archive leaderboard | report |
| Face Detection | WIDER Face (Hard) | Faceness-WIDER | AP | 0.315 | #38 of 40 | Archive leaderboard | report |
| Face Detection | WIDER Face (Hard) | Two-stage CNN | AP | 0.304 | #39 of 40 | Archive leaderboard | report |
| Face Detection | WIDER Face (Medium) | Multiscale Cascade CNN | AP | 0.636 | #34 of 37 | Archive leaderboard | report |
| Face Detection | WIDER Face (Medium) | Faceness-WIDER | AP | 0.604 | #35 of 37 | Archive leaderboard | report |
| Face Detection | WIDER Face (Medium) | Two-stage CNN | AP | 0.589 | #36 of 37 | Archive leaderboard | report |
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