diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 1d06de1f736efc0cda0e787d107d7faa974fd5ed..42462d96cc1f8d4ecfc6ecadb80e5acc12b46e50 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -12,3 +12,6 @@ develop-eggs
 sphinx
 dist
 bob/ip/tensorflow_extractor/data/FaceNet/
+record.txt
+build/
+bob/ip/tensorflow_extractor/data/DR_GAN_model/
diff --git a/bob/ip/tensorflow_extractor/Extractor.py b/bob/ip/tensorflow_extractor/Extractor.py
index 46ba5dea479076b5da8204d142fedc4e8ea0afdf..a3c3f6d120f4f5baa1218fcc83faee7cd12d6f94 100755
--- a/bob/ip/tensorflow_extractor/Extractor.py
+++ b/bob/ip/tensorflow_extractor/Extractor.py
@@ -63,12 +63,12 @@ class Extractor(object):
 
         Parameters
         ----------
-        image : numpy.array
+        image : numpy.ndarray
             Input Data
 
         Returns
         -------
-        numpy.array
+        numpy.ndarray
             The features.
 
         """
diff --git a/bob/ip/tensorflow_extractor/MTCNN.py b/bob/ip/tensorflow_extractor/MTCNN.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1e21778714e17bf259c8b9180b3d5f24eec339fe
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bob/ip/tensorflow_extractor/MTCNN.py
@@ -0,0 +1,125 @@
+# code and model from https://github.com/blaueck/tf-mtcnn
+import pkg_resources
+import tensorflow as tf
+import multiprocessing
+import bob.io.image
+
+
+MODEL_PATH = pkg_resources.resource_filename(__name__, "data/mtcnn/mtcnn.pb")
+
+
+class MTCNN:
+
+    """MTCNN v1 wrapper. See
+    https://kpzhang93.github.io/MTCNN_face_detection_alignment/index.html for more
+    details on MTCNN and see :ref:`bob.ip.tensorflow_extractor.face_detect` for an
+    example code.
+
+    Attributes
+    ----------
+    factor : float
+        Factor is a trade-off between performance and speed.
+    min_size : int
+        Minimum face size to be detected.
+    thresholds : list
+        thresholds are a trade-off between false positives and missed detections.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        min_size=40,
+        factor=0.709,
+        thresholds=(0.6, 0.7, 0.7),
+        model_path=MODEL_PATH,
+    ):
+        self.min_size = min_size
+        self.factor = factor
+        self.thresholds = thresholds
+
+        graph = tf.Graph()
+        with graph.as_default():
+            with open(model_path, "rb") as f:
+                graph_def = tf.GraphDef.FromString(f.read())
+                tf.import_graph_def(graph_def, name="")
+        self.graph = graph
+        config = tf.ConfigProto(
+            intra_op_parallelism_threads=multiprocessing.cpu_count(),
+            inter_op_parallelism_threads=multiprocessing.cpu_count(),
+        )
+        self.sess = tf.Session(graph=graph, config=config)
+
+    def detect(self, img):
+        """Detects all faces in the image.
+
+        Parameters
+        ----------
+        img : numpy.ndarray
+            An RGB image in Bob format.
+
+        Returns
+        -------
+        tuple
+            A tuple of boxes, probabilities, and landmarks.
+        """
+        # assuming img is Bob format and RGB
+        assert img.shape[0] == 3, img.shape
+        # network expects BGR opencv format
+        img = bob.io.image.to_matplotlib(img)
+        img = img[..., ::-1]
+        feeds = {
+            self.graph.get_operation_by_name("input").outputs[0]: img,
+            self.graph.get_operation_by_name("min_size").outputs[0]: self.min_size,
+            self.graph.get_operation_by_name("thresholds").outputs[0]: self.thresholds,
+            self.graph.get_operation_by_name("factor").outputs[0]: self.factor,
+        }
+        fetches = [
+            self.graph.get_operation_by_name("prob").outputs[0],
+            self.graph.get_operation_by_name("landmarks").outputs[0],
+            self.graph.get_operation_by_name("box").outputs[0],
+        ]
+        prob, landmarks, box = self.sess.run(fetches, feeds)
+        return box, prob, landmarks
+
+    def annotations(self, img):
+        """Detects all faces in the image
+
+        Parameters
+        ----------
+        img : numpy.ndarray
+            An RGB image in Bob format.
+
+        Returns
+        -------
+        list
+            A list of annotations. Annotations are dictionaries that contain the
+            following keys: ``topleft``, ``bottomright``, ``reye``, ``leye``, ``nose``,
+            ``mouthright``, ``mouthleft``, and ``quality``.
+        """
+        boxes, scores, landmarks = self.detect(img)
+        annots = []
+        for box, prob, lm in zip(boxes, scores, landmarks):
+            topleft = box[0], box[1]
+            bottomright = box[2], box[3]
+            right_eye = lm[0], lm[5]
+            left_eye = lm[1], lm[6]
+            nose = lm[2], lm[7]
+            mouthright = lm[3], lm[8]
+            mouthleft = lm[4], lm[9]
+            annots.append(
+                {
+                    "topleft": topleft,
+                    "bottomright": bottomright,
+                    "reye": right_eye,
+                    "leye": left_eye,
+                    "nose": nose,
+                    "mouthright": mouthright,
+                    "mouthleft": mouthleft,
+                    "quality": prob,
+                }
+            )
+        return annots
+
+    def __call__(self, img):
+        """Wrapper for the annotations method.
+        """
+        return self.annotations(img)
diff --git a/bob/ip/tensorflow_extractor/__init__.py b/bob/ip/tensorflow_extractor/__init__.py
index 9e17cab7760353539a00c3302ac0ea454b4f47c1..3899dd2eb915bedb2ac434089f95d739ea96f276 100755
--- a/bob/ip/tensorflow_extractor/__init__.py
+++ b/bob/ip/tensorflow_extractor/__init__.py
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ from .Extractor import Extractor
 from .FaceNet import FaceNet
 from .DrGanMSU import  DrGanMSUExtractor
 from .Vgg16 import VGGFace, vgg_16
+from .MTCNN import MTCNN
 
 
 # gets sphinx autodoc done right - don't remove it
@@ -59,7 +60,8 @@ __appropriate__(
     Extractor,
     FaceNet,
     DrGanMSUExtractor,
-    VGGFace
+    VGGFace,
+    MTCNN,
 )
 
 # gets sphinx autodoc done right - don't remove it
diff --git a/bob/ip/tensorflow_extractor/data/mtcnn/mtcnn.hdf5 b/bob/ip/tensorflow_extractor/data/mtcnn/mtcnn.hdf5
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..bbd99614a26b381e6c7fc9876a33bdc7c9bba323
Binary files /dev/null and b/bob/ip/tensorflow_extractor/data/mtcnn/mtcnn.hdf5 differ
diff --git a/bob/ip/tensorflow_extractor/data/mtcnn/mtcnn.json b/bob/ip/tensorflow_extractor/data/mtcnn/mtcnn.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..65f18d66f8dc57eb39ceb96f36c4773930b792cb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bob/ip/tensorflow_extractor/data/mtcnn/mtcnn.json
@@ -0,0 +1,188 @@
+[
+ {
+  "topleft": [
+   40.24329,
+   113.20566
+  ],
+  "bottomright": [
+   106.32423,
+   162.45758
+  ],
+  "reye": [
+   67.90105,
+   124.33353
+  ],
+  "leye": [
+   64.25375,
+   145.77344
+  ],
+  "nose": [
+   81.764984,
+   136.25734
+  ],
+  "mouthright": [
+   88.05158,
+   128.52052
+  ],
+  "mouthleft": [
+   84.64868,
+   150.7494
+  ],
+  "quality": 0.99999917
+ },
+ {
+  "topleft": [
+   34.18492,
+   427.5858
+  ],
+  "bottomright": [
+   94.81634,
+   471.9476
+  ],
+  "reye": [
+   56.84209,
+   446.76434
+  ],
+  "leye": [
+   64.74565,
+   462.9847
+  ],
+  "nose": [
+   71.690926,
+   454.36282
+  ],
+  "mouthright": [
+   75.266556,
+   438.5781
+  ],
+  "mouthleft": [
+   82.32741,
+   454.99423
+  ],
+  "quality": 0.99981314
+ },
+ {
+  "topleft": [
+   69.87796,
+   31.797615
+  ],
+  "bottomright": [
+   123.43042,
+   78.04486
+  ],
+  "reye": [
+   96.72684,
+   43.90791
+  ],
+  "leye": [
+   89.42775,
+   61.957954
+  ],
+  "nose": [
+   104.02164,
+   56.380474
+  ],
+  "mouthright": [
+   111.99057,
+   49.277725
+  ],
+  "mouthleft": [
+   104.45787,
+   69.476105
+  ],
+  "quality": 0.9994398
+ },
+ {
+  "topleft": [
+   105.99489,
+   238.27567
+  ],
+  "bottomright": [
+   159.2981,
+   280.56006
+  ],
+  "reye": [
+   125.97672,
+   249.38193
+  ],
+  "leye": [
+   127.117195,
+   268.7624
+  ],
+  "nose": [
+   138.73158,
+   257.6499
+  ],
+  "mouthright": [
+   142.67319,
+   246.85234
+  ],
+  "mouthleft": [
+   143.5627,
+   267.6805
+  ],
+  "quality": 0.99918956
+ },
+ {
+  "topleft": [
+   48.377903,
+   321.892
+  ],
+  "bottomright": [
+   110.95402,
+   367.87064
+  ],
+  "reye": [
+   73.381096,
+   334.53403
+  ],
+  "leye": [
+   76.274086,
+   355.40384
+  ],
+  "nose": [
+   86.6857,
+   344.3223
+  ],
+  "mouthright": [
+   94.80564,
+   331.12646
+  ],
+  "mouthleft": [
+   96.63391,
+   351.96518
+  ],
+  "quality": 0.9987685
+ },
+ {
+  "topleft": [
+   115.29803,
+   159.48656
+  ],
+  "bottomright": [
+   172.41876,
+   205.56857
+  ],
+  "reye": [
+   141.30688,
+   171.35336
+  ],
+  "leye": [
+   137.49718,
+   191.17722
+  ],
+  "nose": [
+   151.32994,
+   182.92662
+  ],
+  "mouthright": [
+   159.72272,
+   175.2344
+  ],
+  "mouthleft": [
+   156.25536,
+   193.2938
+  ],
+  "quality": 0.99671644
+ }
+]
diff --git a/bob/ip/tensorflow_extractor/data/mtcnn/mtcnn.pb b/bob/ip/tensorflow_extractor/data/mtcnn/mtcnn.pb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4cc80c6c9b6bd45bb6c64e030a8433bed2726b30
Binary files /dev/null and b/bob/ip/tensorflow_extractor/data/mtcnn/mtcnn.pb differ
diff --git a/bob/ip/tensorflow_extractor/data/mtcnn/test_image.png b/bob/ip/tensorflow_extractor/data/mtcnn/test_image.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f42a01af81fae4cb02e73e90a2f1cc0297b07822
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diff --git a/bob/ip/tensorflow_extractor/test.py b/bob/ip/tensorflow_extractor/test.py
index ef80394644a694d3eb24faa687aadbc62aa7e308..dff72a5ba1faa6372228f12bdcc6454a5a395aa0 100644
--- a/bob/ip/tensorflow_extractor/test.py
+++ b/bob/ip/tensorflow_extractor/test.py
@@ -1,13 +1,16 @@
 import bob.io.base
+import bob.io.image
 from bob.io.base.test_utils import datafile
 import bob.ip.tensorflow_extractor
 import tensorflow as tf
 
 import pkg_resources
 import numpy
-numpy.random.seed(10)
+import json
 import os
 
+numpy.random.seed(10)
+
 slim = tf.contrib.slim
 from . import scratch_network
 
@@ -15,8 +18,9 @@ from . import scratch_network
 def test_output():
 
     # Loading MNIST model
-    filename = os.path.join(pkg_resources.resource_filename(
-        __name__, 'data'), 'model.ckp')
+    filename = os.path.join(
+        pkg_resources.resource_filename(__name__, "data"), "model.ckp"
+    )
     inputs = tf.placeholder(tf.float32, shape=(None, 28, 28, 1))
 
     # Testing the last output
@@ -41,23 +45,53 @@ def test_output():
 
 def test_facenet():
     from bob.ip.tensorflow_extractor import FaceNet
+
     extractor = FaceNet()
     data = numpy.random.rand(3, 160, 160).astype("uint8")
     output = extractor(data)
     assert output.size == 128, output.shape
 
+
 def test_drgan():
     from bob.ip.tensorflow_extractor import DrGanMSUExtractor
+
     extractor = DrGanMSUExtractor()
     data = numpy.random.rand(3, 96, 96).astype("uint8")
     output = extractor(data)
     assert output.size == 320, output.shape
 
+
 def test_vgg16():
     pass
-    #from bob.ip.tensorflow_extractor import VGGFace
-    #extractor = VGGFace()
-    #data = numpy.random.rand(3, 224, 224).astype("uint8")
-    #output = extractor(data)
-    #assert output.size == 4096, output.shape
+    # from bob.ip.tensorflow_extractor import VGGFace
+    # extractor = VGGFace()
+    # data = numpy.random.rand(3, 224, 224).astype("uint8")
+    # output = extractor(data)
+    # assert output.size == 4096, output.shape
+
+
+def test_mtcnn():
+    test_image = datafile("mtcnn/test_image.png", __name__)
+    ref_numbers = datafile("mtcnn/mtcnn.hdf5", __name__)
+    ref_annots = datafile("mtcnn/mtcnn.json", __name__)
+    from bob.ip.tensorflow_extractor import MTCNN
+
+    mtcnn = MTCNN()
+    img = bob.io.base.load(test_image)
+    bbox, prob, landmarks = mtcnn.detect(img)
+    with bob.io.base.HDF5File(ref_numbers, "r") as f:
+        ref_bbox = f["bbox"]
+        ref_scores = f["scores"]
+        ref_landmarks = f["landmarks"]
+
+    assert numpy.allclose(bbox, ref_bbox), (bbox, ref_bbox)
+    assert numpy.allclose(prob, ref_scores), (prob, ref_scores)
+    assert numpy.allclose(landmarks, ref_landmarks), (landmarks, ref_landmarks)
 
+    annots = mtcnn.annotations(img)
+    ref_annots = json.load(open(ref_annots))
+    assert len(annots) == len(ref_annots), (len(annots), len(ref_annots))
+    for a, aref in zip(annots, ref_annots):
+        for k, v in a.items():
+            vref = aref[k]
+            assert numpy.allclose(v, vref)
diff --git a/conda/meta.yaml b/conda/meta.yaml
index c845a4c370911c99f5c9cd7250ba4db8c83f6af0..f4d97e9f0407079f3652d5914c4b871f9a1c06a1 100644
--- a/conda/meta.yaml
+++ b/conda/meta.yaml
@@ -25,12 +25,14 @@ requirements:
     - bob.db.mnist
     - bob.ip.color
     - six {{ six }}
+    - tensorflow {{ tensorflow }}
+    - numpy {{ numpy }}
   run:
     - python
     - setuptools
-    - scipy
     - six
-    - tensorflow >=1.2.1
+    - {{ pin_compatible('tensorflow') }}
+    - {{ pin_compatible('numpy') }}
 
 test:
   imports:
@@ -47,7 +49,6 @@ test:
     - coverage
     - sphinx
     - sphinx_rtd_theme
-    - bob.io.image
     - bob.db.atnt
     - matplotlib
     - gridtk
diff --git a/doc/conf.py b/doc/conf.py
index 3e3953b58dabb0fd886dc049e628d5756167c9cc..bb602aa67dd0932d115cd02503ac188f78ff4b2d 100644
--- a/doc/conf.py
+++ b/doc/conf.py
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ else:
     extensions.append('sphinx.ext.pngmath')
 
 # Be picky about warnings
-nitpicky = False
+nitpicky = True
 
 # Ignores stuff we can't easily resolve on other project's sphinx manuals
 nitpick_ignore = []
diff --git a/doc/face_detect.rst b/doc/face_detect.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1ea59fcdeef2ecd65db95a150e685050abc389fb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/face_detect.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+
+.. _bob.ip.tensorflow_extractor.face_detect:
+
+============================
+ Face detection using MTCNN
+============================
+
+This package comes with a wrapper around the MTCNN (v1) face detector. See
+https://kpzhang93.github.io/MTCNN_face_detection_alignment/index.html for more
+information on MTCNN. The model is directly converted from the caffe model using code in
+https://github.com/blaueck/tf-mtcnn
+
+See below for an example on how to use
+:any:`bob.ip.tensorflow_extractor.MTCNN`:
+
+.. plot:: plot/detect_faces_mtcnn.py
+   :include-source: True
+
diff --git a/doc/index.rst b/doc/index.rst
index 8858af850cff2648d15c1a7fba82c90cac15fadc..cc4daeda6d67c165b0ec5bb3f64dc49dbc8ae15d 100644
--- a/doc/index.rst
+++ b/doc/index.rst
@@ -16,4 +16,5 @@ Tensorflow http://tensorflow.org/
    :maxdepth: 2
 
    guide
+   face_detect
    py_api
diff --git a/doc/plot/detect_faces_mtcnn.py b/doc/plot/detect_faces_mtcnn.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..570f6b7c43657c0b52b8eb023ec5fc023734b119
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/plot/detect_faces_mtcnn.py
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+from bob.io.image import imshow
+from bob.io.base import load
+from bob.io.base.test_utils import datafile
+from bob.ip.tensorflow_extractor import MTCNN
+import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
+from matplotlib.patches import Rectangle, Circle
+
+# load colored test image
+color_image = load(datafile("mtcnn/test_image.png", "bob.ip.tensorflow_extractor"))
+
+# detect all face
+detector = MTCNN()
+detections = detector(color_image)
+
+imshow(color_image)
+plt.axis("off")
+
+for annotations in detections:
+    topleft = annotations["topleft"]
+    bottomright = annotations["bottomright"]
+    size = bottomright[0] - topleft[0], bottomright[1] - topleft[1]
+    # draw bounding boxes
+    plt.gca().add_patch(
+        Rectangle(
+            topleft[::-1],
+            size[1],
+            size[0],
+            edgecolor="b",
+            facecolor="none",
+            linewidth=2,
+        )
+    )
+    # draw face landmarks
+    for key, color in (
+        ("reye", "r"),
+        ("leye", "g"),
+        ("nose", "b"),
+        ("mouthright", "k"),
+        ("mouthleft", "w"),
+    ):
+        plt.gca().add_patch(
+            Circle(
+                annotations[key][::-1],
+                radius=2,
+                edgecolor=color,
+                facecolor="none",
+                linewidth=2,
+            )
+        )
+    # show quality of detections
+    plt.text(
+        topleft[1], topleft[0], round(annotations["quality"], 3), color="b", fontsize=14
+    )
diff --git a/doc/py_api.rst b/doc/py_api.rst
index a4bd582d6d5a8f617d76b7b95824ca1dfa4f952d..454ee6f5c43f1831e4b38684f1afcd151fa556d1 100644
--- a/doc/py_api.rst
+++ b/doc/py_api.rst
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ Classes
 .. autosummary::
     bob.ip.tensorflow_extractor.Extractor
     bob.ip.tensorflow_extractor.FaceNet
+    bob.ip.tensorflow_extractor.MTCNN
 
 
 Detailed API