Face detection method based on improved YOLO-v4 network and attention mechanism

Due to insufficient information and feature extraction in existing face-detection methods, as well as limited computing power, designing high-precision and efficient face-detection algorithms is an open challenge. Based on this, we propose an improved face detection algorithm. First, through 1 x 1's common convolution block (CBL) expands the channel for feature extraction, introduces a depthwise separable residual network into the YOLO-v4 network to further reduce the amount of model computation, and uses CBL to reduce the dimension, so as to improve the efficiency of the subsequent network. Second, the improved attention mechanism is used to splice the high-level features, and the high-level features and the shallow features are fused to obtain the feature vectors containing more information, so as to improve the richness and representativeness of the feature vectors. Finally, the experimental results show that compared with other comparative methods, our method achieves the best results on public face datasets, and our performance in personal face detection is significantly better than other methods.