Face Detection

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Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28

13 leaderboard tables shown for this task, 13 with rows (a “benchmark” on this site is a table with at least one row, as on /sota), ordered by row count. “Best model” is the first row in the archive's own order at snapshot; nothing is re-ranked here and metric direction is not recorded in the archive. PwC's Trend sparklines are not in the archive, so that column is omitted. 10 shown of 13 until expanded.

Syntology column: samples harvested from the paper's repositories and executed on synthesized fixtures; “ran” is not a correctness claim and does not order the table. A dash means no Syntology record for that paper, not a recorded non-run. Read from the graph 2026-09-24.

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Datasets archive 2025-07-28

39 datasets whose archive record lists this task, ordered by the archive's paper count. 30 shown of 39 until expanded.

Subtasks archive 2025-07-28

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Parent tasks archive 2025-07-28

Most implemented papers archive 2025-07-28

30 shown of 147 papers with code (536 tagged with this task in all), ordered by repositories listed in the archive, not by stars (the archive holds no stars, so PwC's “Social” and “Latest” sorts cannot be reproduced). Papers without a page here are shown as plain text.

• RetinaFace: Single-stage Dense Face Localisation in the Wild
  2 May 2019 76 repositories listed Syntology ran 17 of 91 samples · 74 unverified
  Face Analysis Project on MXNet
• Joint Face Detection and Alignment using Multi-task Cascaded Convolutional Networks
  11 Apr 2016 42 repositories listed Syntology ran 1 of 9 samples · 8 unverified · 3 pointer-only (licence)
  Face detection and alignment in unconstrained environment are challenging due to various poses, illuminations and occlusions.
• Finding Tiny Faces
  13 Dec 2016 20 repositories listed Syntology ran 0 of 14 samples · 14 unverified
  We explore three aspects of the problem in the context of finding small faces: the role of scale invariance, image resolution, and contextual reasoning.
• Real-time Convolutional Neural Networks for Emotion and Gender Classification
  20 Oct 2017 18 repositories listed Syntology ran 1 of 17 samples · 16 unverified
  In this paper we propose an implement a general convolutional neural network (CNN) building framework for designing real-time CNNs.
• LFFD: A Light and Fast Face Detector for Edge Devices
  24 Apr 2019 15 repositories listed Syntology ran 1 of 5 samples · 4 unverified
  Under the new schema, the proposed method can achieve superior accuracy (WIDER FACE Val/Test -- Easy: 0.
• Zero-Reference Deep Curve Estimation for Low-Light Image Enhancement
  19 Jan 2020 13 repositories listed Syntology ran 1 of 16 samples · 15 unverified
  The paper presents a novel method, Zero-Reference Deep Curve Estimation (Zero-DCE), which formulates light enhancement as a task of image-specific curve estimation with a deep network.
• FaceBoxes: A CPU Real-time Face Detector with High Accuracy
  17 Aug 2017 11 repositories listed Syntology ran 1 of 1 samples · 0 unverified
  The MSCL aims at enriching the receptive fields and discretizing anchors over different layers to handle faces of various scales.
• BlazeFace: Sub-millisecond Neural Face Detection on Mobile GPUs
  11 Jul 2019 10 repositories listed
  We present BlazeFace, a lightweight and well-performing face detector tailored for mobile GPU inference.
• RetinaFace: Single-Shot Multi-Level Face Localisation in the Wild
  1 Jun 2020 9 repositories listed
  Though tremendous strides have been made in uncontrolled face detection, accurate and efficient 2D face alignment and 3D face reconstruction in-the-wild remain an open challenge.
• CenterFace: Joint Face Detection and Alignment Using Face as Point
  9 Nov 2019 9 repositories listed
  Face detection and alignment in unconstrained environment is always deployed on edge devices which have limited memory storage and low computing power.
• Can we still avoid automatic face detection?
  14 Feb 2016 9 repositories listed
  In this setting, is it still possible for privacy-conscientious users to avoid automatic face detection and recognition?
• Sample and Computation Redistribution for Efficient Face Detection
  10 May 2021 8 repositories listed Syntology ran 3 of 7 samples · 4 unverified
  Although tremendous strides have been made in uncontrolled face detection, efficient face detection with a low computation cost as well as high precision remains an open challenge.
• Object Detection with Pixel Intensity Comparisons Organized in Decision Trees
  20 May 2013 8 repositories listed
  We describe a method for visual object detection based on an ensemble of optimized decision trees organized in a cascade of rejectors.
• MIDV-500: A Dataset for Identity Documents Analysis and Recognition on Mobile Devices in Video Stream
  16 Jul 2018 7 repositories listed
  The main goal of this paper is to present a dataset.
• Learning to Enhance Low-Light Image via Zero-Reference Deep Curve Estimation
  1 Mar 2021 5 repositories listed
  This paper presents a novel method, Zero-Reference Deep Curve Estimation (Zero-DCE), which formulates light enhancement as a task of image-specific curve estimation with a deep network.
• Real-world adversarial attack on MTCNN face detection system
  14 Oct 2019 5 repositories listed
  Recent studies proved that deep learning approaches achieve remarkable results on face detection task.
• PyramidBox: A Context-assisted Single Shot Face Detector
  21 Mar 2018 5 repositories listed
  This paper proposes a novel context-assisted single shot face detector, named \emph{PyramidBox} to handle the hard face detection problem.
• An IoT Endpoint System-on-Chip for Secure and Energy-Efficient Near-Sensor Analytics
  18 Dec 2016 5 repositories listed
  Near-sensor data analytics is a promising direction for IoT endpoints, as it minimizes energy spent on communication and reduces network load - but it also poses security concerns, as valuable data is stored or sent…
• Face Detection with End-to-End Integration of a ConvNet and a 3D Model
  2 Jun 2016 5 repositories listed
  The proposed method addresses two issues in adapting state- of-the-art generic object detection ConvNets (e.
• Max-Margin Object Detection
  31 Jan 2015 5 repositories listed
  This avoids the computational difficulty of dealing with the entire set of sub-windows, however, as we will show in this paper, it leads to sub-optimal detector performance.
• RNNPool: Efficient Non-linear Pooling for RAM Constrained Inference
  27 Feb 2020 4 repositories listed Syntology ran 0 of 1 samples · 1 unverified · 1 pointer-only (licence)
  Standard Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) designed for computer vision tasks tend to have large intermediate activation maps.
• PyramidBox++: High Performance Detector for Finding Tiny Face
  31 Mar 2019 4 repositories listed
  With the rapid development of deep convolutional neural network, face detection has made great progress in recent years.
• DSFD: Dual Shot Face Detector
  24 Oct 2018 4 repositories listed
  In this paper, we propose a novel face detection network with three novel contributions that address three key aspects of face detection, including better feature learning, progressive loss design and anchor assign…
• LAD-RCNN:A Powerful Tool for Livestock Face Detection and Normalization
  31 Oct 2022 3 repositories listed
  However, there is no study on normalizing of the animal face image with arbitrary directions.
• Detect Faces Efficiently: A Survey and Evaluations
  3 Dec 2021 3 repositories listed
  However, with the tremendous increase in images and videos with variations in face scale, appearance, expression, occlusion and pose, traditional face detectors are challenged to detect various "in the wild" faces.
• YOLO5Face: Why Reinventing a Face Detector
  27 May 2021 3 repositories listed Syntology ran 2 of 2 samples · 0 unverified · 2 pointer-only (licence)
  We make a few key modifications to the YOLOv5 and optimize it for face detection.
• Low-Light Image and Video Enhancement Using Deep Learning: A Survey
  21 Apr 2021 3 repositories listed
  Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) aims at improving the perception or interpretability of an image captured in an environment with poor illumination.
• MaskedFace-Net -- A Dataset of Correctly/Incorrectly Masked Face Images in the Context of COVID-19
  18 Aug 2020 3 repositories listed
  However, at the moment, there are no available large dataset of masked face images that permits to check if detected masked faces are correctly worn or not.
• Masked Face Recognition Dataset and Application
  20 Mar 2020 3 repositories listed
  These datasets are freely available to industry and academia, based on which various applications on masked faces can be developed.
• VarGFaceNet: An Efficient Variable Group Convolutional Neural Network for Lightweight Face Recognition
  11 Oct 2019 3 repositories listed
  To improve the discriminative and generalization ability of lightweight network for face recognition, we propose an efficient variable group convolutional network called VarGFaceNet.

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