Recent progress in face detection (including keypoint detection), and recognition is mainly being driven by (i) deeper convolutional neural network architectures, and (ii) larger datasets. However, most of the largest datasets are maintained by private companies and are not publicly available. The academic computer vision community needs larger and more varied datasets to make further progress. #R##N#In this paper we introduce a new face dataset, called UMDFaces, which has 367,920 face annotations of 8,501 subjects. We discuss how a large dataset can be collected and annotated using human annotators and deep networks. We provide human curated bounding boxes for faces. We also provide estimated pose (roll, pitch and yaw), locations of twenty-one key-points and gender information generated by a pre-trained neural network. Finally, we compare the quality of the dataset with other publicly available face datasets at similar scales.
['Ankan Bansal', 'Anirudh Nanduri', 'Carlos D. Castillo', 'Rajeev Ranjan', 'Rama Chellappa']
UMDFaces: An Annotated Face Dataset for Training Deep Networks