Face Detection

Face Detection is a computer vision task that involves automatically identifying and locating human faces within digital images or videos. It is a fundamental technology that underpins many applications such as face recognition, face tracking, and facial analysis.

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Papers

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Title	Date	Tasks	Status	Score
Adversarial Occlusion-aware Face Detection	Sep 15, 2017	Face DetectionOccluded Face Detection	CodeCode Available	5
BlazeFace: Sub-millisecond Neural Face Detection on Mobile GPUs	Jul 11, 2019	Face DetectionGPU	CodeCode Available	5
Context-aware CNNs for person head detection	Nov 24, 2015	Face DetectionHead Detection	CodeCode Available	5
Appearance-based gaze estimation enhanced with synthetic images using deep neural networks	Nov 23, 2023	4kFace Detection	CodeCode Available	5
Finding Tiny Faces	Dec 13, 2016	Face DetectionObject Recognition	CodeCode Available	5
HyperFace: A Deep Multi-task Learning Framework for Face Detection, Landmark Localization, Pose Estimation, and Gender Recognition	Mar 3, 2016	Face DetectionMulti-Task Learning	CodeCode Available	5
FairDeFace: Evaluating the Fairness and Adversarial Robustness of Face Obfuscation Methods	Mar 11, 2025	Adversarial RobustnessFace Detection	CodeCode Available	5
MobiFace: A Novel Dataset for Mobile Face Tracking in the Wild	May 24, 2018	Face DetectionObject Tracking	CodeCode Available	5
B-FPGM: Lightweight Face Detection via Bayesian-Optimized Soft FPGM Pruning	Jan 28, 2025	Bayesian OptimizationFace Detection	CodeCode Available	5
MTCAE-DFER: Multi-Task Cascaded Autoencoder for Dynamic Facial Expression Recognition	Dec 25, 2024	Dynamic Facial Expression RecognitionFace Detection	CodeCode Available	5
Face-MagNet: Magnifying Feature Maps to Detect Small Faces	Mar 14, 2018	Face DetectionRegion Proposal	CodeCode Available	5
CYBORG: Blending Human Saliency Into the Loss Improves Deep Learning	Dec 1, 2021	Deep LearningFace Detection	CodeCode Available	5
A Deep Regression Architecture With Two-Stage Re-Initialization for High Performance Facial Landmark Detection	Jul 1, 2017	Face DetectionFacial Landmark Detection	CodeCode Available	5
FCHD: Fast and accurate head detection in crowded scenes	Sep 24, 2018	Face DetectionGeneral Classification	CodeCode Available	5
Face Detection with End-to-End Integration of a ConvNet and a 3D Model	Jun 2, 2016	Face DetectionFace Model	CodeCode Available	5
Bounding-box deep calibration for high performance face detection	Oct 8, 2021	Face DetectionVocal Bursts Intensity Prediction	CodeCode Available	5
Real-Time Facial Expression Emoji Masking with Convolutional Neural Networks and Homography	Dec 24, 2020	Face DetectionHomography Estimation	CodeCode Available	5
Face Detection with the Faster R-CNN	Jun 10, 2016	Face Detectionobject-detection	CodeCode Available	5
Bayesian Adaptive Superpixel Segmentation	Oct 1, 2019	Face DetectionGPU	CodeCode Available	5
FaceBoxes: A CPU Real-time Face Detector with High Accuracy	Aug 17, 2017	CPUFace Detection	CodeCode Available	5
EMface: Detecting Hard Faces by Exploring Receptive Field Pyraminds	May 21, 2021	Face Detection	CodeCode Available	5
DSFD: Dual Shot Face Detector	Oct 24, 2018	Data AugmentationFace Detection	CodeCode Available	5
Robust AI-Generated Face Detection with Imbalanced Data	May 4, 2025	DeepFake DetectionDomain Generalization	CodeCode Available	5
Robust Face Detection via Learning Small Faces on Hard Images	Nov 28, 2018	Face Detection	CodeCode Available	5
Entropy-Driven Mixed-Precision Quantization for Deep Network Design	Nov 28, 2022	CPUFace Detection	CodeCode Available	5

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All datasets WIDER Face (Hard)WIDER Face (Medium)WIDER Face (Easy)FDDB Annotated Faces in the Wild PASCAL Face WIDER FACE COCO-WholeBody DCM iCartoonFace ADE20K

Benchmark Results

#	Model	Metric	Claimed	Verified	Status
1	Poly-NL(ResNet-50)	AP	0.93	—	Unverified
2	ASFD-D6	AP	0.93	—	Unverified
3	RetinaFace+Lpts+Lpixel	AP	0.92	—	Unverified
4	AInnoFace	AP	0.91	—	Unverified
5	DupNet-L+PACT	AP	0.91	—	Unverified
6	DSFD	AP	0.9	—	Unverified
7	+ DH + HIM	AP	0.9	—	Unverified
8	SRN	AP	0.9	—	Unverified
9	FDNet	AP	0.9	—	Unverified
10	PyramidBox	AP	0.89	—	Unverified

#	Model	Metric	Claimed	Verified	Status
1	ASFD-D6	AP	0.97	—	Unverified
2	RetinaFace+Lpts+Lpixel	AP	0.96	—	Unverified
3	Poly-NL(ResNet-50)	AP	0.96	—	Unverified
4	AInnoFace	AP	0.96	—	Unverified
5	DSFD	AP	0.95	—	Unverified
6	YOLOv5x6	AP	0.95	—	Unverified
7	SCRFD-34GF	AP	0.95	—	Unverified
8	+ DH + HIM	AP	0.95	—	Unverified
9	YOLOv5l6	AP	0.95	—	Unverified
10	SRN	AP	0.95	—	Unverified

#	Model	Metric	Claimed	Verified	Status
1	ASFD-D6	AP	0.97	—	Unverified
2	RetinaFace+Lpts+Lpixel	AP	0.97	—	Unverified
3	YOLOv5x6	AP	0.97	—	Unverified
4	AInnoFace	AP	0.97	—	Unverified
5	YOLOv5m6	AP	0.96	—	Unverified
6	Poly-NL(ResNet-50)	AP	0.96	—	Unverified
7	PyramidBox	AP	0.96	—	Unverified
8	SCRFD-34GF	AP	0.96	—	Unverified
9	DSFD (RFB)	AP	0.96	—	Unverified
10	SRN	AP	0.96	—	Unverified

#	Model	Metric	Claimed	Verified	Status
1	Condensation-Net	Accuracy	91.82	—	Unverified
2	DSFD	AP	0.99	—	Unverified
3	Face R-FCN	AP	0.99	—	Unverified
4	SRN	AP	0.99	—	Unverified
5	PyramidBox	AP	0.99	—	Unverified
6	S3FD	AP	0.98	—	Unverified
7	LFFD	AP	0.97	—	Unverified
8	FaceBoxes	AP	0.96	—	Unverified
9	HyperFace	AP	0.9	—	Unverified
10	DPM	AP	0.86	—	Unverified

#	Model	Metric	Claimed	Verified	Status
1	SRN	AP	1	—	Unverified
2	HyperFace-ResNet	AP	0.99	—	Unverified
3	LRN + RSA	AP	0.99	—	Unverified
4	FaceBoxes	AP	0.99	—	Unverified
5	STN	AP	0.98	—	Unverified
6	DPM	AP	0.97	—	Unverified
7	Conv3D	AP	0.96	—	Unverified

#	Model	Metric	Claimed	Verified	Status
1	SRN	AP	0.99	—	Unverified
2	S3FD	AP	0.98	—	Unverified
3	FaceBoxes	AP	0.96	—	Unverified
4	HyperFace-ResNet	AP	0.96	—	Unverified
5	STN	AP	0.94	—	Unverified
6	DPM	AP	0.9	—	Unverified

#	Model	Metric	Claimed	Verified	Status
1	Condensation-Net	Average Precision	93.86	—	Unverified
2	MobileNetV1-0.25	Average Top-1 Accuracy	68.98	—	Unverified
3	IFQ-Tinier-YOLO	GFLOPs	0.11	—	Unverified

#	Model	Metric	Claimed	Verified	Status
1	HPRNet (Hourglass-104)	AP	56.4	—	Unverified
2	HPRNet (DLA)	AP	55.8	—	Unverified

#	Model	Metric	Claimed	Verified	Status
1	DASS-Detector (YOLOX Tiny)	Average Precision	77.4	—	Unverified
2	DASS-Detector (YOLOX XL)	Average Precision	77.4	—	Unverified

#	Model	Metric	Claimed	Verified	Status
1	DASS-Detector (YOLOX XL)	Average Precision	90.01	—	Unverified
2	DASS-Detector (YOLOX Tiny)	Average Precision	87.75	—	Unverified

#	Model	Metric	Claimed	Verified	Status
1	CASSOD	mIoU	42.86	—	Unverified