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Finding Tiny Faces

CVPR 2017 · Detection and segmentation › CNN features · approach: Box regression and loss design · 748 citations (OpenAlex)

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What was changedWhereMeasuredEffect
Add fixed large-scale context to small-face detection (ablation)Fixed-size face detector · WIDER FACE small facesaccuracy: 18.9%Helped
Add context beyond the face extent (ablation)Fixed-size face detector · WIDER FACE large facesaccuracy: 1.5%Helped
Extend tiny-face context beyond 300x300 pixels (ablation)Tiny-face detector · WIDER FACE tiny facesaccuracyHurt
Remove high-resolution foveal features, using only res4 (ablation)Small-face template · WIDER FACE small facesperformance: 7%Hurt
Remove high-resolution foveal features, using only res5 (ablation)Small-face template · WIDER FACE small facesperformance: 33%Hurt
Remove foveal structure from the template (ablation)Large-face template · WIDER FACE large facesperformanceNo clear effect
Use a medium-size template on 2X upsampled test images for small faces (ablation)Fixed-size face detector · WIDER FACE small faces (25x20)performance: 69% to 75%Helped
Use a medium-size template on images downsampled by 2X for large faces (ablation)Fixed-size face detector · WIDER FACE large faces (250x200)performance: 89% to 94%Helped
Use 2X template resolution for small faces (ablation)Scale-specific detector · WIDER FACE small faces (25x20)accuracy: 6.3%Helped
Use 0.5X template resolution for large faces (ablation)Scale-specific detector · WIDER FACE large faces (250x200)accuracy: 5.6%Helped
Prune redundant templates (ablation)HR-ResNet101 · WIDER FACE validationAP: 0.919 -> 0.925 (Easy); 0.908 -> 0.914 (Medium); 0.823 -> 0.831 (Hard)Helped
Remove hard-example mining (ablation)HR-ResNet101 · WIDER FACE validationAP: 0.919 -> 0.917 (Easy); 0.908 -> 0.904 (Medium); 0.823 -> 0.825 (Hard)No clear effect

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