code_test/configs/wider_face/README.md

• WIDER Face Dataset

WIDER Face Dataset

To use the WIDER Face dataset you need to download it
and extract to the data/WIDERFace folder. Annotation in the VOC format
can be found in this repo.
You should move the annotation files from WIDER_train_annotations and WIDER_val_annotations folders
to the Annotation folders inside the corresponding directories WIDER_train and WIDER_val.
Also annotation lists val.txt and train.txt should be copied to data/WIDERFace from WIDER_train_annotations and WIDER_val_annotations.
The directory should be like this:

mmdetection
├── mmdet
├── tools
├── configs
├── data
│   ├── WIDERFace
│   │   ├── WIDER_train
│   |   │   ├──0--Parade
│   |   │   ├── ...
│   |   │   ├── Annotations
│   │   ├── WIDER_val
│   |   │   ├──0--Parade
│   |   │   ├── ...
│   |   │   ├── Annotations
│   │   ├── val.txt
│   │   ├── train.txt

After that you can train the SSD300 on WIDER by launching training with the ssd300_wider_face.py config or
create your own config based on the presented one.

@inproceedings{yang2016wider,
   Author = {Yang, Shuo and Luo, Ping and Loy, Chen Change and Tang, Xiaoou},
   Booktitle = {IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
   Title = {WIDER FACE: A Face Detection Benchmark},
   Year = {2016}
}