If you need a deep dive into a specific aspect (e.g., creating your own HQ pipeline, training a recognition model, or comparing with other datasets), let me know.
For training recognition models, apply random erasing, color jitter, and blur to avoid overfitting to HQ artifacts. VGGFace2-HQ is a valuable research resource that fixes many flaws of the original VGGFace2, enabling high-resolution face recognition and generation. However, it inherits the original’s ethical and licensing constraints, and its artificial upscaling can introduce subtle artifacts.
| Model | Training Data | LFW (%) | AgeDB-30 (%) | CFP-FP (%) | |-------|---------------|---------|--------------|-------------| | ArcFace (R100) | VGGFace2 | 99.82 | 98.15 | 96.25 | | ArcFace (R100) | VGGFace2-HQ | 99.85 | 98.42 | 96.80 | | MobileFaceNet | VGGFace2 | 99.52 | 96.80 | 94.20 | | MobileFaceNet | VGGFace2-HQ | 99.60 | 97.10 | 94.90 |
: +0.1–0.3% on clean benchmarks, more significant on blurred/noisy test sets.