WebFace260M: a benchmark unveiling the power of million-scale deep face recognition
Author(s)
Type
Conference Paper
Abstract
In this paper, we contribute a new million-scale face benchmark containing noisy 4M identities/260M faces (WebFace260M) and cleaned 2M identities/42M faces (WebFace42M) training data, as well as an elaborately designed time-constrained evaluation protocol. Firstly, we collect 4M name list and download 260M faces from the Internet. Then, a Cleaning Automatically utilizing Self-Training (CAST) pipeline is devised to purify the tremendous WebFace260M, which is efficient and scalable. To the best of our knowledge, the cleaned WebFace42M is the largest public face recognition training set and we expect to close the data gap between academia and industry. Referring to practical scenarios, Face Recognition Under Inference Time conStraint (FRUITS) protocol and a test set are constructed to comprehensively evaluate face matchers.Equipped with this benchmark, we delve into million-scale face recognition problems. A distributed framework is developed to train face recognition models efficiently without tampering with the performance. Empowered by Web-Face42M, we reduce relative 40% failure rate on the challenging IJB-C set, and rank the 3rd among 430 entries on NIST-FRVT. Even 10% data (WebFace4M) shows superior performance compared with public training set. Furthermore, comprehensive baselines are established on our rich-attribute test set under FRUITS-100ms/500ms/1000ms protocol, including MobileNet, EfficientNet, AttentionNet, ResNet, SENet, ResNeXt and RegNet families. Benchmark website is https://www.face-benchmark.org.
Date Issued
2021-11-13
Date Acceptance
2021-11-01
Citation
2021 IEEE/CVF CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER VISION AND PATTERN RECOGNITION, CVPR 2021, 2021, pp.10487-10497
ISSN
1063-6919
Publisher
IEEE COMPUTER SOC
Start Page
10487
End Page
10497
Journal / Book Title
2021 IEEE/CVF CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER VISION AND PATTERN RECOGNITION, CVPR 2021
Copyright Statement
© 2021 The Author(s). Authorized licensed use limited to: Imperial College London.
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Source
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
Subjects
Science & Technology
Technology
Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
Imaging Science & Photographic Technology
Computer Science
NETWORKS
Publication Status
Published
Start Date
2021-06-19
Finish Date
2021-06-25
Coverage Spatial
ELECTR NETWORK
Date Publish Online
2021-11-13