Landmark-Guided Local Deep Neural Networks for Age and Gender Classification

Journal of Sensors

Yungang Zhang^1¹  Tianwei Xu^2² 

[1]Department of Computer Science, Yunnan Normal University, Kunming, Yunnan 650500, China^1

[2]Graduate School, Yunnan Normal University, Kunming, Yunnan 650500, China^2

DOI  :  10.1155/2018/5034684

学科分类：自动化工程

来源: Hindawi Publishing Corporation

【 摘 要 】

Many types of deep neural networks have been proposed to address the problem of human biometric identification, especially in the areas of face detection and recognition. Local deep neural networks have been recently used in face-based age and gender classification, despite their improvement in performance, their costs on model training is rather expensive. In this paper, we propose to construct a local deep neural network for age and gender classification. In our proposed model, local image patches are selected based on the detected facial landmarks; the selected patches are then used for the network training. A holistical edge map for an entire image is also used for training a “global” network. The age and gender classification results are obtained by combining both the outputs from both the “global” and the local networks. Our proposed model is tested on two face image benchmark datasets; competitive performance is obtained compared to the state-of-the-art methods.

【 授权许可】

CC BY