Implementation of the MTCNN face detector for Keras in Python3.4+. It is written from scratch, using as a reference the implementation of MTCNN from David Sandberg (FaceNet's MTCNN) in Facenet. It is based on the paper Zhang, K et al. (2016) [ZHANG2016].

Currently it is only supported Python3.4 onwards. It can be installed through pip:

$ pip install mtcnn

This implementation requires OpenCV>=4.1 and Keras>=2.0.0 (any Tensorflow supported by Keras will be supported by this MTCNN package). If this is the first time you use tensorflow, you will probably need to install it in your system:

$ pip install tensorflow

or with conda

$ conda install tensorflow

Note that tensorflow-gpu version can be used instead if a GPU device is available on the system, which will speedup the results.

The following example illustrates the ease of use of this package:

>>> from mtcnn import MTCNN
>>> import cv2
>>>
>>> img = cv2.cvtColor(cv2.imread("ivan.jpg"), cv2.COLOR_BGR2RGB)
>>> detector = MTCNN()
>>> detector.detect_faces(img)
[
    {
        'box': [277, 90, 48, 63],
        'keypoints':
        {
            'nose': (303, 131),
            'mouth_right': (313, 141),
            'right_eye': (314, 114),
            'left_eye': (291, 117),
            'mouth_left': (296, 143)
        },
        'confidence': 0.99851983785629272
    }
]

The detector returns a list of JSON objects. Each JSON object contains three main keys: 'box', 'confidence' and 'keypoints':

• The bounding box is formatted as [x, y, width, height] under the key 'box'.
• The confidence is the probability for a bounding box to be matching a face.
• The keypoints are formatted into a JSON object with the keys 'left_eye', 'right_eye', 'nose', 'mouth_left', 'mouth_right'. Each keypoint is identified by a pixel position (x, y).

Another good example of usage can be found in the file "example.py." located in the root of this repository. Also, you can run the Jupyter Notebook "example.ipynb" for another example of usage.

The following tables shows the benchmark of this mtcnn implementation running on an Intel i7-3612QM CPU @ 2.10GHz, with a CPU-based Tensorflow 1.4.1.

• Pictures containing a single frontal face:

• Pictures containing 10 frontal faces:

By default the MTCNN bundles a face detection weights model.

The model is adapted from the Facenet's MTCNN implementation, merged in a single file located inside the folder 'data' relative to the module's path. It can be overriden by injecting it into the MTCNN() constructor during instantiation.

The model must be numpy-based containing the 3 main keys "pnet", "rnet" and "onet", having each of them the weights of each of the layers of the network.

For more reference about the network definition, take a close look at the paper from Zhang et al. (2016) [ZHANG2016].

MIT License.