FaceCoresetNet: Differentiable Coresets for Face Set Recognition

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Abstract: In set-based face recognition, we aim to compute the most discriminative descriptor from an unbounded set of images and videos showing a single person. A discriminative descriptor balances two policies when aggregating information from a given set. The first is a quality-based policy: emphasizing high-quality and down-weighting low-quality images. The second is a diversity-based policy: emphasizing unique images in the set and down-weighting multiple occurrences of similar images as found in video clips which can overwhelm the set representation. This work frames face-set representation as a differentiable coreset selection problem. Our model learns how to select a small coreset of the input set that balances quality and diversity policies using a learned metric parameterized by the face quality, optimized end-to-end. The selection process is a differentiable farthest-point sampling (FPS) realized by approximating the non-differentiable Argmax operation with differentiable sampling from the Gumbel-Softmax distribution of distances. The small coreset is later used as queries in a self and cross-attention architecture to enrich the descriptor with information from the whole set. Our model is order-invariant and linear in the input set size. We set a new SOTA to set face verification on the IJB-B and IJB-C datasets. Our code is publicly available \footnote{\url{https://github.com/ligaripash/FaceCoresetNet/}}.

Installation and Preparation

1. Environment

We use pytorch (1.10.0) in our experiments.

pip install -r requirements.txt

2. Pretrained Models

We release the FaceCoresetNet model pretrained on AdaFace backbone. The backbone is trained on WebFace4M dataset. And FaceCoresetNet is trained on a subset of WebFace4M dataset.

Pretrained FaceCoresetNet model: FaceCoresetNet.pth

Place FaceCoresetNet.pth under pretrained_models/

pretrained_models/
├── FaceCoresetNet.ckpt

Evaluation

IJBB and IJBC

For evaluation with IJBB/IJBC you may download the related files from.

InsightFace IJB Dataset or
Download for convenience, here is an additional link we provide.

Place the downloaded files in <DATA_ROOT>, i.e

<DATA_ROOT>
└── IJB
    ├── aligned (only needed during training)                                                                                                                      │➜  ffhq mv FFHQ_png_512.zip /hddata/data/ffhq/
    └── insightface_helper
        ├── ijb                                                                                                                             │➜  ffhq mv FFHQ_png_512.zip /hddata/data/ffhq/
        └── meta

For faster validation please download the IJB AdaFace backbone features:

Please place both these files in the directory: validation_IJBB_IJBC

validation_IJBB_IJBC/
├── IJBB-AdaFace-Backbone-Features.pickle
└── IJBC-AdaFace-Backbone-Features.pickle

Refer to the below code for evaluation.

1. Update eval.sh with your DATA_ROOT
2. bash ./eval.sh

Training from scratch

WebFace4M Subset (as in paper)

The model was trained on a WebFace4M subset that can be downloaded here AdaFace4M_subset.

Get pretrained face recognition model backbone
- AdaFace trained on WebFace4M AdaFaceWebFace4M.ckpt
- Place the files under pretrained_models/

For training script, refer to

cd FaceCoresetNet
bash ./train.sh  # DATA_ROOT has to be specified.

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