Does the mtcnn script do the real align?

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Does the mtcnn script do the real align? #838

Open tonybaigang opened 6 years ago

tonybaigang commented 6 years ago

Hi, Experts It seems the script align_dataset_mtcnn.py just do face detection, not did align as in align_dlib.py which use getAffineTransform to align. Why the align_dataset_mtcnn.py do not do real align?

caocuong0306 commented 6 years ago

No. @davidsandberg already stated that his approach is to "just use the face bounding box and let the model generalize over different face poses." https://github.com/davidsandberg/facenet/issues/93. Take a look at https://github.com/davidsandberg/facenet/issues/329 for further discussion.

rgsousa88 commented 6 years ago

So, can I train a model using a pre-aligned dataset withou using this script? I mean, I have images only from faces and all ones are aligned... Is it possible or recommended?