Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, Volume. 56, Issue 4, 041003(2019)

Context-Sensitive Multi-Scale Face Detection

Long Chen* and Yanwei Pang
Author Affiliations
  • School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China
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    Figures & Tables(12)
    Structure of CSMS network
    Context extraction module. (a)Stacked model; (b) context-sensitive module
    Effective feature fusion structure
    Precision-recall curves on Wider Face validation set. (a) Easy; (b) Medium; (c) Hard
    Qualitative detection results
    • Table 1. Comparison of context extraction module

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      Table 1. Comparison of context extraction module

      ModelStackedmodelCSMS context-sensitive module
      Number ofparameters5*3×33*3×3
      Equivalentlayer3×3,5×5,7×73*3×3,3*5×5,7×7
    • Table 2. Comparison of mAP for scale invariance design%

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      Table 2. Comparison of mAP for scale invariance design%

      LevelCSMS-sglDmCSMS
      Easy81.292.6
      Medium83.691.0
      Hard39.882.5
    • Table 3. Comparison of mAP for context-sensitive module%

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      Table 3. Comparison of mAP for context-sensitive module%

      LevelStacked modelCSMS
      Easy92.592.6
      Medium90.891.0
      Hard82.082.5
    • Table 4. Comparison of mAP for training methods focused on hard sample samples%

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      Table 4. Comparison of mAP for training methods focused on hard sample samples%

      LevelOHEMFocal Loss
      Easy91.992.3
      Medium90.790.8
      Hard81.481.6
    • Table 5. Comparison of mAP for feature fusion%

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      Table 5. Comparison of mAP for feature fusion%

      LevelCSMS-plCSMS-plDltCSMS
      Easy92.392.692.6
      Medium90.890.891.0
      Hard82.082.282.5
    • Table 6. Ablation study of CSMS on Wider Face test set

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      Table 6. Ablation study of CSMS on Wider Face test set

      MethodContributionmAP / %
      FocalLossContext-sensitivemoduleEffectivefeature fusionEasyMediumHard
      Baseline91.990.781.4
      CSMS92.390.881.6
      92.490.882.2
      92.691.082.5
    • Table 7. Comparison of detection performance

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      Table 7. Comparison of detection performance

      MethodmAP /%
      EasyMediumHard
      Method inRef. [15]86.284.474.9
      Method inRef. [15]92.591.080.6
      Method inRef. [14]89.987.462.9
      Method inRef. [17]91.990.781.4
      Method inRef. [17]93.192.184.5
      CSMS(VGG-16)92.691.082.5
      CSMS(VGG-16)+Pyramid93.892.185.1
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    Paper Information

    Category: Image Processing

    Received: Aug. 8, 2018

    Accepted: Sep. 5, 2018

    Published Online: Jul. 31, 2019

    The Author Email: Chen Long (longchen@tju.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/LOP56.041003

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