How Transferable Are CNN-Based Features for Age and Gender Classification?
| Autor: | Gokhan Ozbulak, Hazim Kemal Ekenel, Yusuf Aytar |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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FOS: Computer and information sciences
Biometrics Computer science business.industry Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV) Computer Science - Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 020207 software engineering 02 engineering and technology Machine learning computer.software_genre Convolutional neural network Facial recognition system Domain (software engineering) Task (project management) Age and gender Identification (information) 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering 020201 artificial intelligence & image processing Artificial intelligence business Representation (mathematics) computer |
| Zdroj: | BIOSIG |
| Popis: | Age and gender are complementary soft biometric traits for face recognition. Successful estimation of age and gender from facial images taken under real-world conditions can contribute improving the identification results in the wild. In this study, in order to achieve robust age and gender classification in the wild, we have benefited from Deep Convolutional Neural Networks based representation. We have explored transferability of existing deep convolutional neural network (CNN) models for age and gender classification. The generic AlexNet-like architecture and domain specific VGG-Face CNN model are employed and fine-tuned with the Adience dataset prepared for age and gender classification in uncontrolled environments. In addition, task specific GilNet CNN model has also been utilized and used as a baseline method in order to compare with transferred models. Experimental results show that both transferred deep CNN models outperform the GilNet CNN model, which is the state-of-the-art age and gender classification approach on the Adience dataset, by an absolute increase of 7% and 4.5% in accuracy, respectively. This outcome indicates that transferring a deep CNN model can provide better classification performance than a task specific CNN model, which has a limited number of layers and trained from scratch using a limited amount of data as in the case of GilNet. Domain specific VGG-Face CNN model has been found to be more useful and provided better performance for both age and gender classification tasks, when compared with generic AlexNet-like model, which shows that transfering from a closer domain is more useful. Comment: 12 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables, International Conference of the Biometrics Special Interest Group (BIOSIG) 2016 |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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