FaceBoxes in PyTorch

By Zisian Wong, Shifeng Zhang

A PyTorch implementation of FaceBoxes: A CPU Real-time Face Detector with High Accuracy. The official code in Caffe can be found here.

Performance

Dataset	Original Caffe	PyTorch Implementation
AFW	98.98 %	98.55%
PASCAL	96.77 %	97.05%
FDDB	95.90 %	96.00%

Citation

Please cite the paper in your publications if it helps your research:

@inproceedings{zhang2017faceboxes,
  title = {Faceboxes: A CPU Real-time Face Detector with High Accuracy},
  author = {Zhang, Shifeng and Zhu, Xiangyu and Lei, Zhen and Shi, Hailin and Wang, Xiaobo and Li, Stan Z.},
  booktitle = {IJCB},
  year = {2017}
}

Contents

• Installation
• Training
• Evaluation
• References

Installation

1. Install PyTorch >= v1.0.0 following official instruction.

2. Clone this repository. We will call the cloned directory as $FaceBoxes_ROOT.

git clone https://github.com/zisianw/FaceBoxes.PyTorch.git

3. Compile the nms:

./make.sh

Note: Codes are based on Python 3+.

Training

1. Download WIDER FACE dataset, place the images under this directory:

$FaceBoxes_ROOT/data/WIDER_FACE/images

2. Convert WIDER FACE annotations to VOC format or download our converted annotations, place them under this directory:

$FaceBoxes_ROOT/data/WIDER_FACE/annotations

3. Train the model using WIDER FACE:

cd $FaceBoxes_ROOT/
python3 train.py

If you do not wish to train the model, you can download our pre-trained model and save it in $FaceBoxes_ROOT/weights.

Evaluation

1. Download the images of AFW, PASCAL Face and FDDB to:

$FaceBoxes_ROOT/data/AFW/images/
$FaceBoxes_ROOT/data/PASCAL/images/
$FaceBoxes_ROOT/data/FDDB/images/

2. Evaluate the trained model using:

# dataset choices = ['AFW', 'PASCAL', 'FDDB']
python3 test.py --dataset FDDB
# evaluate using cpu
python3 test.py --cpu
# visualize detection results
python3 test.py -s --vis_thres 0.3

3. Download eval_tool to evaluate the performance.

References

• Official release (Caffe)

• A huge thank you to SSD ports in PyTorch that have been helpful:

  • ssd.pytorch, RFBNet

  Note: If you can not download the converted annotations, the provided images and the trained model through the above links, you can download them through BaiduYun.