Sub-center arcface: boosting face recognition by large-scale noisy web faces
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Author(s)
Deng, Jiankang
Guo, Jia
Liu, Tongliang
Gong, Mingming
Zafeiriou, Stefanos
Type
Conference Paper
Abstract
Margin-based deep face recognition methods (e.g. SphereFace, CosFace, and ArcFace) have achieved remarkable success in unconstrained face recognition. However, these methods are susceptible to the massive label noise in the training data and thus require laborious human effort to clean the datasets. In this paper, we relax the intra-class constraint of ArcFace to improve the robustness to label noise. More specifically, we design K sub-centers for each class and the training sample only needs to be close to any of the K positive sub-centers instead of the only one positive center. The proposed sub-center ArcFace encourages one dominant sub-class that contains the majority of clean faces and non-dominant sub-classes that include hard or noisy faces. Extensive experiments confirm the robustness of sub-center ArcFace under massive real-world noise. After the model achieves enough discriminative power, we directly drop non-dominant sub-centers and high-confident noisy samples, which helps recapture intra-compactness, decrease the influence from noise, and achieve comparable performance compared to ArcFace trained on the manually cleaned dataset. By taking advantage of the large-scale raw web faces (Celeb500K), sub-center Arcface achieves state-of-the-art performance on IJB-B, IJB-C, MegaFace, and FRVT.
Date Issued
2020-11-27
Date Acceptance
2020-08-01
Citation
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2020, pp.741-757
ISBN
9783030586201
ISSN
0302-9743
Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Start Page
741
End Page
757
Journal / Book Title
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume
12356 LNCS
Copyright Statement
© 2020 Springer Nature Switzerland AG. This version of the article has been accepted for publication, after peer review (when applicable) and is subject to Springer Nature’s AM terms of use, but is not the Version of Record and does not reflect post-acceptance improvements, or any corrections. The Version of Record is available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58621-8_43
Source
European Conference on Computer Vision
Subjects
Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing
Publication Status
Published
Start Date
2023-08-23
Finish Date
2020-08-28
Coverage Spatial
Glasgow, UK
Date Publish Online
2020-11-27