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Face detection is the first step of most face-related applications such as face recognition, face tracking, facial expression recognition, facial landmarks detection, and so on.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    State-of-the-art APs can be found in the official result pages of the datasets, and https://paperswithcode.com/task/face-detection which also collects results from published papers.

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    https://competitions.codalab.org/competitions/20146.

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    http://vis-www.cs.umass.edu/fddb/results.html.

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    http://vis-www.cs.umass.edu/fddb/.

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    http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~deva/papers/face/index.html.

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    http://host.robots.ox.ac.uk/pascal/VOC/.

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    http://www.cbsr.ia.ac.cn/faceevaluation/.

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    http://shuoyang1213.me/WIDERFACE/.

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    http://www.escience.cn/people/geshiming/mafa.html.

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    https://www.nist.gov/programs-projects/face-challenges.

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    https://github.com/Megvii-BaseDetection/4K-Face.

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    https://ufdd.info.

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    https://flyywh.github.io/CVPRW2019LowLight/.

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    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confusion_matrix.

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    https://github.com/microsoft/onnxruntime.

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