EdgeFace: Efficient Face Recognition Model for Edge Devices
This addresses the problem of deploying accurate face recognition on resource-constrained edge devices, representing an incremental improvement over existing lightweight models.
The paper tackles efficient face recognition for edge devices by proposing EdgeFace, a lightweight hybrid CNN-Transformer model with a low-rank linear layer, achieving state-of-the-art results on benchmarks like LFW (99.73%), IJB-B (92.67%), and IJB-C (94.85%) with only 1.77M parameters.
In this paper, we present EdgeFace, a lightweight and efficient face recognition network inspired by the hybrid architecture of EdgeNeXt. By effectively combining the strengths of both CNN and Transformer models, and a low rank linear layer, EdgeFace achieves excellent face recognition performance optimized for edge devices. The proposed EdgeFace network not only maintains low computational costs and compact storage, but also achieves high face recognition accuracy, making it suitable for deployment on edge devices. Extensive experiments on challenging benchmark face datasets demonstrate the effectiveness and efficiency of EdgeFace in comparison to state-of-the-art lightweight models and deep face recognition models. Our EdgeFace model with 1.77M parameters achieves state of the art results on LFW (99.73%), IJB-B (92.67%), and IJB-C (94.85%), outperforming other efficient models with larger computational complexities. The code to replicate the experiments will be made available publicly.