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Scale-Aware Face Detection

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Hao, Zekun, Liu, Yu, Qin, Hongwei, Yan, Junjie, Li, Xiu, Hu, Xiaolin·2017·2017 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)

Abstract

Convolutional neural network (CNN) based face detectors are inefficient in handling faces of diverse scales. They rely on either fitting a large single model to faces across a large scale range or multi-scale testing. Both are computationally expensive. We propose Scale-aware Face Detection (SAFD) to handle scale explicitly using CNN, and achieve better performance with less computation cost. Prior to detection, an efficient CNN predicts the scale distribution histogram of the faces. Then the scale histogram guides the zoom-in and zoom-out of the image. Since the faces will be approximately in uniform scale after zoom, they can be detected accurately even with much smaller CNN. Actually, more than 99% of the faces in AFW can be covered with less than two zooms per image. Extensive experiments on FDDB, MALF and AFW show advantages of SAFD.

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  • Another recent improvement is to predict the scale distribution of objects in an image and then adaptively re-scale the image according to it.

    “Another recent improvement is to predict the scale distribution of objects in an image, and then adaptively re-scaling the image according to it [181, 182].”

    From Object Detection in 20 Years: A Survey (2023) · cites this paper as [182]

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Authors
Hao, Z., Liu, Y., Qin, H., Yan, J., Li, X., & Hu, X.
Affiliations
  • Sensetime (China) (CN)
  • Tsinghua University (CN)
Venue
2017 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
Publisher
IEEE
Published
2017-07
Pages
1913-1922
ISSN
1063-6919 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2963770578
Cited by
134
References
42
Citations by year
2026: 3 · 2025: 7 · 2024: 14 · 2023: 14 · 2022: 8 · 2021: 18 · 2020: 22 · 2019: 32 · 2018: 13 · 2017: 3
FWCI
5.60
Type
conference paper
Language
en
Open access
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  • IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings (publishedVersion)
  • arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Face recognition and analysis
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Advanced Neural Network Applications
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Face Recognition and Perception
Keywords
face detection, computational efficiency

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