SSFD: A face detector using a single-scale feature map

Lei Shi, Xiang Xu, Ioannis A. Kakadiaris

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Abstract

In this paper, we present a simple but effective face detector (dubbed SSFD), which can localize multi-scale faces. Unlike other multi-scale feature detectors which learn multi-scale features or feature pyramids aggregated from different scale feature maps, SSFD only depends on a single-scale input image and a single-scale feature map to detect faces of various scales. In SSFD, transposed convolutions are leveraged to increase the resolution of feature maps with different strides, which can maintain adequate information for occluded and small faces. In addition, dilated convolutions are deployed to increase the receptive field size, which contributes to obtaining discriminative contextual information. SSFD, which is based on the VGG-16 network, outperforms the ResNet101-based Scale-Face as well as the VGG16-based HR on the WIDER FACE validation dataset.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication2018 IEEE 9th International Conference on Biometrics Theory, Applications and Systems, BTAS 2018
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)9781538671795
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 2 2018
Event9th IEEE International Conference on Biometrics Theory, Applications and Systems, BTAS 2018 - Redondo Beach, United States
Duration: Oct 22 2018Oct 25 2018

Publication series

Name2018 IEEE 9th International Conference on Biometrics Theory, Applications and Systems, BTAS 2018

Conference

Conference9th IEEE International Conference on Biometrics Theory, Applications and Systems, BTAS 2018
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityRedondo Beach
Period10/22/1810/25/18

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Statistics and Probability
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Computer Science Applications

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