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A shunting inhibitory convolutional neural network for gender classification

  • University of Wollongong
  • IEEE

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Abstract

Demographic features, such as gender, are very important for human recognition and can be used to enhance social and biometric applications. In this paper, we propose to use a class of convolutional neural networks for gender classification. These networks are built upon the concepts of local receptive field processing and weight sharing, which makes them more tolerant to distortions and variations in two dimensional shapes. Tested on two separate data sets, the proposed networks achieve better classification accuracy than the conventional feedforward multilayer perceptron networks. On the Feret benchmark dataset, the proposed convolutional neural networks achieve a classification rate of 97.1%.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationTrack D
Subtitle of host publicationParallel and Connectionist Systems
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages421-424
Number of pages4
ISBN (Print)9780769525211
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2006
Externally publishedYes
Event18th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, ICPR 2006 - Hong Kong, China
Duration: 20 Aug 200624 Aug 2006

Publication series

NameProceedings - International Conference on Pattern Recognition
Volume4
ISSN (Print)1051-4651

Conference

Conference18th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, ICPR 2006
Country/TerritoryChina
CityHong Kong
Period20/08/0624/08/06

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