---
license: mit
tags:
  - kornia
  - face-detection
  - object-detection
---

# kornia/yunet

Pretrained weights for **YuNet**,
used by [`kornia.models.FaceDetector`](https://kornia.readthedocs.io/en/latest/models.html).

YuNet is a lightweight face detection CNN based on depthwise-separable convolutions
and a multi-scale FPN head. Runs in real time on CPU. IEEE TBIOM 2021.

**Original repo:** [ShiqiYu/libfacedetection.train](https://github.com/ShiqiYu/libfacedetection.train)

## Weights

| File | Description |
|------|-------------|
| `yunet_final.pth` | Default checkpoint |

## Citation

```bibtex
@article{facedetect-yu,
    author  = {Yuantao Feng and Shiqi Yu and Hanyang Peng
               and Yan-ran Li and Jianguo Zhang},
    title   = {Detect Faces Efficiently: A Survey and Evaluations},
    journal = {IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science},
    year    = {2021}
}
```