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RetinaFace
Single-stage Dense Face Localisation in the Wild
RetinaFace combines accurate face detection with reliable five-point landmark localisation, making it a practical front-end for recognition and alignment-heavy pipelines.
Paper Details
RetinaFace: Single-stage Dense Face Localisation in the Wild
Publication
CVPR 2020
Authors
Jiankang Deng, Jia Guo, Yuxiang Zhou, Jinke Yu, Irene Kotsia, Stefanos Zafeiriou
Research Overview
RetinaFace focuses on detecting difficult faces in real scenes while also returning landmarks that improve alignment quality. That combination makes it useful not only for detection benchmarks, but also for enterprise systems where downstream recognition accuracy depends on consistent cropping and pose normalization.
Production Applications
- Face detection and alignment before recognition
- Real-time video analytics and entry gate cameras
- Image ingestion, cropping, and portrait normalization
- Mobile capture flows that require stable landmark estimation
Key Contributions
Jointly predicts face boxes and five facial landmarks in a single-stage detector, reducing pipeline complexity.
Dense supervision and context-aware design improve robustness on small, occluded, blurred, and profile faces.
Provides dependable alignment signals for recognition, quality assessment, and video analytics workflows.
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