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SwiftFace: Real-Time Face Detection

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2020-09-30 v1 Machine Learning Image and Video Processing

Abstract

Computer vision is a field of artificial intelligence that trains computers to interpret the visual world in a way similar to that of humans. Due to the rapid advancements in technology and the increasing availability of sufficiently large training datasets, the topics within computer vision have experienced a steep growth in the last decade. Among them, one of the most promising fields is face detection. Being used daily in a wide variety of fields; from mobile apps and augmented reality for entertainment purposes, to social studies and security cameras; designing high-performance models for face detection is crucial. On top of that, with the aforementioned growth in face detection technologies, precision and accuracy are no longer the only relevant factors: for real-time face detection, speed of detection is essential. SwiftFace is a novel deep learning model created solely to be a fast face detection model. By focusing only on detecting faces, SwiftFace performs 30% faster than current state-of-the-art face detection models. Code available at https://github.com/leo7r/swiftface

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@article{arxiv.2009.13743,
  title  = {SwiftFace: Real-Time Face Detection},
  author = {Leonardo Ramos and Bernardo Morales},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.13743},
  year   = {2020}
}
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