no code implementations • 9 Oct 2017 • Ke Zhang, Ce Gao, Liru Guo, Miao Sun, Xingfang Yuan, Tony X. Han, Zhenbing Zhao, Baogang Li
In this paper, we propose a new CNN based method for age group and gender estimation leveraging Residual Networks of Residual Networks (RoR), which exhibits better optimization ability for age group and gender classification than other CNN architectures. Moreover, two modest mechanisms based on observation of the characteristics of age group are presented to further improve the performance of age estimation. In order to further improve the performance and alleviate over-fitting problem, RoR model is pre-trained on ImageNet firstly, and then it is fune-tuned on the IMDB-WIKI-101 data set for further learning the features of face images, finally, it is used to fine-tune on Adience data set.
Ranked #6 on Age And Gender Classification on Adience Age (using extra training data)