This repo hosts official implementation of our CVPR2022 paper "General Facial Representation Learning in a Visual-Linguistic Manner".

• [04/05/2023] State-of-the-art face alignment and face parsing model is ready for easy usage in facer.
• [21/06/2022] LAION-Face dataset was released.
• [10/03/2022] FaRL was accepted by CVPR 2022 as Oral presentation.
• [02/03/2022] facer was released. It is a face related toolkit build upon FaRL.

FaRL offers powerful pre-training transformer backbones for face analysis tasks. Its pre-training combines both the image-text contrastive learning and the masked image modeling.

After the pre-training, the image encoder can be utilized for various downstream face tasks.

We offer different pre-trained transformer backbones as below.

We provied both the pretrained text encoder and the image encoder. As FaRL shares the same network structure as CLIP, you can load the weights of FaRL using exactly the same network structure as CLIP VIT-B16, and use it exactly like CLIP. Here are the code sample modified from CLIP.

import torch
import clip
from PIL import Image

device ="cuda" if torch.cuda.is_available() else "cpu"
model, preprocess = clip.load("ViT-B/16", device="cpu")
model = model.to(device)
farl_state=torch.load("FaRL-Base-Patch16-LAIONFace20M-ep16.pth") # you can download from https://github.com/FacePerceiver/FaRL#pre-trained-backbones
model.load_state_dict(farl_state["state_dict"],strict=False)

image = preprocess(Image.open("CLIP.png")).unsqueeze(0).to(device)
text = clip.tokenize(["a diagram", "a dog", "a cat"]).to(device)

with torch.no_grad():
    image_features = model.encode_image(image)
    text_features = model.encode_text(text)
    
    logits_per_image, logits_per_text = model(image, text)
    probs = logits_per_image.softmax(dim=-1).cpu().numpy()

print("Label probs:", probs)  

We run all downstream trainings on 8 NVIDIA GPUs (32G). Our code supports other GPU configurations, but we do not guarantee the resulting performances on them. Before setting up, install these packages:

• PyTorch 1.7.0
• MMCV-Full 1.3.14

Then, install the rest dependencies with pip install -r ./requirement.txt.

Please refer to ./DS_DATA.md to prepare the training and testing data for downstream tasks.

Download the pre-trained backbones into ./blob/checkpoint/. Now you can launch the downstream trainings & evaluations with following command template.

python -m blueprint.run \
  farl/experiments/{task}/{train_config_file}.yaml \
  --exp_name farl --blob_root ./blob

The repo has included some config files under ./farl/experiments/ that perform finetuning for face parsing and face alignment. For example, if you would like to launch a face parsing training on LaPa by finetuning our FaRL-Base-Patch16-LAIONFace20M-ep16 pre-training, simply run with:

python -m blueprint.run \
  farl/experiments/face_parsing/train_lapa_farl-b-ep16_448_refinebb.yaml \
  --exp_name farl --blob_root ./blob

Or if you would like to launch a face alignment training on 300W by finetuning our FaRL-Base-Patch16-LAIONFace20M-ep16 pre-training, you can simply run with:

python -m blueprint.run \
  farl/experiments/face_alignment/train_ibug300w_farl-b-ep16_448_refinebb.yaml \
  --exp_name farl --blob_root ./blob

It is also easy to create new config files for training and evaluation on your own. For example, you can customize your own face parsing task on CelebAMask-HQ by editing the values below (remember to remove the comments before running).

package: farl.experiments.face_parsing

class: blueprint.ml.DistributedGPURun
local_run:
  $PARSE('./trainers/celebm_farl.yaml', 
    cfg_file=FILE,
    train_data_ratio=None, # The data ratio used for training. None means using 100% training data; 0.1 means using only 10% training data.
    batch_size=5, # The local batch size on each GPU.
    model_type='base', # The size of the pre-trained backbone. Supports 'base', 'large' or 'huge'.
    model_path=BLOB('checkpoint/FaRL-Base-Patch16-LAIONFace20M-ep16.pth'), # The path to the pre-trained backbone.
    input_resolution=448, # The input image resolution, e.g 224, 448. 
    head_channel=768, # The channels of the head.
    optimizer_name='refine_backbone', # The optimization method. Should be 'refine_backbone' or 'freeze_backbone'.
    enable_amp=False) # Whether to enable float16 in downstream training.

The following table illustrates the performances of our FaRL-Base-Patch16-LAIONFace20M-ep16 pre-training, which is pre-trained with 16 epoches, both reported in the paper (Paper) and reproduced using this repo (Rep). There are small differences between their performances due to code refactorization.

Below we also report results of our new FaRL-Base-Patch16-LAIONFace20M-ep64, which is pre-trained with 64 epoches instead of 16 epoches as above, showing further improvements on most tasks.

We will continuously update the pre-trained downstream face models in our facer package.

We use the LAION-Face dataset for training the FaRL model, LAION-Face is the human face subset of LAION-400M, it consists of 50 million image-text pairs, we use the 20M subset for fast verification.

For help or issues concerning the code and the released models, feel free to submit a GitHub issue, or contact Hao Yang (haya@microsoft.com).

If you find our work helpful, please consider citing

@article{zheng2021farl,
  title={General Facial Representation Learning in a Visual-Linguistic Manner},
  author={Zheng, Yinglin and Yang, Hao and Zhang, Ting and Bao, Jianmin and Chen, Dongdong and Huang, Yangyu and Yuan, Lu and Chen, Dong and Zeng, Ming and Wen, Fang},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2112.03109},
  year={2021}
}

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