Project AURIONAI Use-Cases Research & Innovation
Google
vision

BlazeFace

Sub-millisecond face detector for mobile GPUs.

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Figure from the BlazeFace paper: Anchor computation: SSD (left) vs.
Levelvariant
Classvision
Parametersnot in the notes
Contextnot in the notes
Released11 Jul 2019
Opennessunknown
Runs onmicrocontroller, mobile or NPU
Statusactive

R&D Topics

Face detection, recognition and livenessexemplarEfficient vision networks for mobile and edge devicesproduced by

Identity

Developer
Google
Family
MediaPipe vision models
Released
11 Jul 2019 sourcesannouncement page
Weights published
–
Record checked
12 Oct 2026
Where this comes from
Developer and dates from the research notes. Release date is the vendor's public announcement; weights date is when open weights were published.

Architecture and Size

Architecture
CNN
Total parameters
– sources
Active parameters
–
Checkpoint parameters
–
Note
Short-range and full-range (dense and sparse).
Context length
not in the notes
Input
image
Output
labels and boxes
Where this comes from
Parameter counts as the developer states them. Where the checkpoint holds a different total, both are shown (register A16).

Openness and Access

Openness
unknown
Licence
not in the notes sources
Access routes
open weights download
Where this comes from
The licence file governs over registry tags and aggregator labels.

Deployment

Runs on
microcontroller, mobile or NPU
Footprint
Edge or toolkit builds listed in: STM32 model zoo, MediaPipe.
Runtimes
not in the notes
Where this comes from
Deployment tiers and runtimes as named in the notes. Footprint is the notes' figure, not a measurement by AURION.

Indonesia

Indonesian support
not stated
Regional languages
not in the notes
Jakarta hosting
unknown
Languages
not in the notes
Where this comes from
Indonesia fields are carried on every model; unknown is an allowed value.

Benchmark Results

The notes record no benchmark result for this model.

Lineage

The notes record no lineage for this model.

Industry Use Cases

No industry use case links this model.

Sources

  1. arxiv.org/abs/1907.05047 https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.05047
  2. github.com/STMicroelectronics/stm32ai-modelzoo/tree/main... https://github.com/STMicroelectronics/stm32ai-modelzoo/tree/main/face_detection/facedetect_front
  3. ai.google.dev/edge/mediapipe/solutions/vision/face_detector https://ai.google.dev/edge/mediapipe/solutions/vision/face_detector
  4. kaggle.com/models/tensorflow/blazeface https://www.kaggle.com/models/tensorflow/blazeface

To cite this page: Project AURION, AI Use-Cases Research & Innovation, "BlazeFace", https://aurion.semai.id/models/google-blazeface/, records of October 2026.