Stylized-Face: A Million-Level Stylized Face Dataset for Face Recognition

Stylized face recognition is the task of recognizing generated faces with the same ID across diverse stylistic domains (e.g., anime, painting, cyberpunk styles). This emerging field plays a vital role in the governance of generative image, serving the primary objective: Recognize the ID information of stylized faces to detect potential infringements of portrait rights. Despite its importance, progress in stylized face recognition has been hindered by the lack of large-scale, stylistically diverse datasets. To address this gap, we introduce the Stylized-Face dataset, which is the first dataset specifically designed for stylized face recognition. Stylized-Face dataset includes 4.6 million images across 62k IDs, specifically curated to enhance model performance in stylized face recognition tasks. To ensure data quality (i.e., ID preservation) at this massive scale, we implement a semi-automated pipeline for large-scale data cleaning. Based on the Stylized-Face dataset, we establish three benchmarks to evaluate the robustness and generalization of recognition models across various scenarios, including within-distribution performance, cross-prompt generalization, and cross-method generalization, which target key challenges in stylized face recognition. Experimental results demonstrate that models trained on Stylized-Face achieve remarkable improvements in both stylized face recognition performance (a 15.9% improvement in TAR at FAR=1e-4) and generalization (a 13.3% improvement in TAR at FAR=1e-3 in cross-method generalization).