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Accurate and Efficient Similarity Search for Large Scale Face Recognition

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2018-06-04 v1

Abstract

Face verification is a relatively easy task with the help of discriminative features from deep neural networks. However, it is still a challenge to recognize faces on millions of identities while keeping high performance and efficiency. The challenge 2 of MS-Celeb-1M is a classification task. However, the number of identities is too large and it is not that elegant to treat the task as an image classification task. We treat the classification task as similarity search and do experiments on different similarity search strategies. Similarity search strategy accelerates the speed of searching and boosts the accuracy of final results. The model used for extracting features is a single deep neural network pretrained on CASIA-Webface, which is not trained on the base set or novel set offered by official. Finally, we rank \textbf{3rd}, while the speed of searching is 1ms/image.

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@article{arxiv.1806.00365,
  title  = {Accurate and Efficient Similarity Search for Large Scale Face Recognition},
  author = {Ce Qi and Zhizhong Liu and Fei Su},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1806.00365},
  year   = {2018}
}
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