Face Detection using Deep Learning: An Improved Faster RCNN Approach.

In this paper, we present a new face detection scheme using deep learning and achieve the state-of-the-art detection performance on the well-known FDDB face detection benchmark evaluation. In particular, we improve the state-of-the-art Faster RCNN framework by combining a number of strategies, including feature concatenation, hard negative mining, multi-scale training, model pre-training, and proper calibration of key parameters. As a consequence, the proposed scheme obtained the state-of-the-art face detection performance and was ranked as one of the best models in terms of ROC curves of the published methods on the FDDB benchmark.11The result of this work ranked #1 on the FDDB leaderboard in Feb 2017. An earlier version of this work was submitted to published in arXiv.org on 28 Jan 2017