Age and gender classification using convolutional neural networks

IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops

Volumn 2015-October, Issue , 2015, Pages 34-42

  Levi, Gil ^a   Hassncer, Tal ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

Author keywords

Benchmark testing; Computer architecture; Estimation; Face; Face recognition; Neurons; Training

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER TESTING; COMPUTER VISION; CONVOLUTION; DEEP NEURAL NETWORKS; ESTIMATION; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; NEURAL NETWORKS; NEURONS; PERSONNEL TRAINING;

BENCHMARK TESTING; CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORK; FACE; GENDER CLASSIFICATION; GENDER ESTIMATIONS; NET ARCHITECTURE; REAL-WORLD IMAGE; STATE-OF-THE-ART METHODS;

FACE RECOGNITION;

EID: 84940671759     PISSN: 21607508     EISSN: 21607516     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CVPRW.2015.7301352     Document Type: Conference Paper

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