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A Self-attention Network for Face Detection Based on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

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Intelligent Robotics and Applications (ICIRA 2022)

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Face detection based on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) faces following challenges: (1) scale variation. When the UAVs fly in the air, the size of faces is different owing to the distance, which increases the difficulty of face detection. (2) lack of specialized face detection datasets. It results in a sharp drop in the accuracy of algorithm. To address these two issues, we make full advantage of existing open benchmarks to train our model. However, the gap is too huge when we adapt face detectors from the ground to the air. Therefore, we propose a novel network called Face Self-attention Network (FSN) to achieve high performance. Our method conducts extensive experiments on the standard WIDER FACE benchmark. The experimental results demonstrate that FSN can detect multi-scale faces accurately.

This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (61873259, U20A20200,61821005), and the Youth Innovation Promotion Association of Chinese Academy of Sciences (2019203).

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  1. College of Information Engineering, Shenyang University of Technology, Shenyang, 110870, China

    Shunfu Hua & Wei Li

  2. State Key Laboratory of Robotics, Shenyang Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, 110016, China

    Shunfu Hua, Huijie Fan, Naida Ding & Yandong Tang

  3. Institutes for Robotics and Intelligent Manufacturing, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, 110169, China

    Shunfu Hua, Huijie Fan, Naida Ding & Yandong Tang

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  1. Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China

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  2. Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

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  3. Shenyang Institute of Automation, Shenyang, Liaoning, China

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Hua, S., Fan, H., Ding, N., Li, W., Tang, Y. (2022). A Self-attention Network for Face Detection Based on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. In: Liu, H., et al. Intelligent Robotics and Applications. ICIRA 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 13456. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13822-5_39

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