Face classification: A specialized benchmark study

Jiali Duan, Shengcai Liao, Shuai Zhou, Stan Z. Li

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4 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

Face detection evaluation generally involves three steps: block generation, face classification, and post-processing. However, firstly, face detection performance is largely influenced by block generation and post-processing, concealing the performance of face classification core module. Secondly, implementing and optimizing all the three steps results in a very heavy work, which is a big barrier for researchers who only cares about classification. Motivated by this, we conduct a specialized benchmark study in this paper, which focuses purely on face classification. We start with face proposals, and build a benchmark dataset with about 3.5 million patches for two-class face/non-face classification. Results with several baseline algorithms show that, without the help of post-processing, the performance of face classification itself is still not very satisfactory, even with a powerful CNN method. We’ll release this benchmark to help assess performance of face classification only, and ease the participation of other related researchers.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationBiometric Recognition - 11th Chinese Conference, CCBR 2016, Proceedings
EditorsShiguang Shan, Zhisheng You, Jie Zhou, Weishi Zheng, Yunhong Wang, Zhenan Sun, Jianjiang Feng, Qijun Zhao
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages22-29
Number of pages8
ISBN (Print)9783319466538
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2016
Externally publishedYes
Event11th Chinese Conference on Biometric Recognition, CCBR 2016 - Chengdu, China
Duration: Oct 14 2016Oct 16 2016

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume9967 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference11th Chinese Conference on Biometric Recognition, CCBR 2016
Country/TerritoryChina
CityChengdu
Period10/14/1610/16/16

Keywords

  • Benchmark evaluation
  • Face classification
  • Face detection

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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