Star-Clouds/CenterFace

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1344 stars · 351 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

CenterFace is a lightweight (7.3MB) anchor-free face detection and alignment model that detects faces and predicts facial landmarks using a 'face as point' approach. It ships with C++ (ncnn) and Python inference code optimized for edge devices.

Use cases

• detect faces in images or video streams
• run face detection on edge devices or mobile
• find facial landmarks alongside bounding boxes
• deploy a small fast face detector with ncnn
• benchmark face detection accuracy on WIDER FACE
• integrate face detection into a C++ application

When to choose

• you need a tiny, fast face detector for edge or embedded hardware
• you want joint detection and landmark alignment in one model
• you need high accuracy on small/hard faces (WIDER FACE hard set)
• you prefer an anchor-free detection approach

When to avoid

• you need face recognition or identity matching, not just detection
• you need active maintenance and recent updates (last release 2021)
• you need a general object detector rather than faces only
• you require extensive documentation or community support

Facets

library · maturity maintenance

machine-learning computer-vision image-processing computer-vision cross-platform python cpp face-detection face-alignment anchor-free ncnn landmarks edge-devices onnx gpu

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