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PARKHI et al.: DEEP FACE RECOGNITION 1 Deep Face Recognition Omkar M. Parkhi omkar@robots.ox.ac.uk Andrea Vedaldi vedaldi@robots.ox.ac.uk Andrew Zisserman az@robots.ox.ac.uk Visual Geometry Group Department of Engineering Science University of Oxford Abstract The goal of this paper is face recognition – from either a single photograph or from a set of faces tracked in a video. Recent progress in this area has been due to two factors: (i) end to end learning for the task using a convolutional neural network (CNN), and (ii) the availability of very large scale training datasets. We make two contributions: first, we show how a very large scale dataset (2.6M im- ages, over 2.6K people) can be assembled by a combination of automation and human in the loop, and discuss the trade off between data purity and time; second, we traverse through the complexities of deep network training and face recognition to present meth- ods and procedures to achieve comparable state of the art results on the standard LFW and YTF face benchmarks. 1 Introduction Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have taken the computer vision community by storm, significantly improving the state of the art in many applications. One of the most important ingredients for the success of such methods is the availability of large quantities of training data. The ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge (ILSVRC) [16] was instrumental in providing this data for the general image classification task. More re- cently, researchers have made datasets available for segmentation, scene classification and image segmentation [12, 33]. In the world of face recognition, however, large scale public datasets have been lacking and, largely due to this factor, most of the recent advances in the community remain restricted to Internet giants such as Facebook and Google etc. For example, the most recent face recognition method by Google [17] was trained using 200 million images and eight million unique identities. The s