Hardware/software co-design for a gender recognition embedded system

Andrew Tzer Yeu Chen*, Morteza Biglari-Abhari, Kevin I.Kai Wang, Abdesselam Bouzerdoum, Fok Hing Chi Tivive

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Abstract

Gender recognition has applications in human-computer interaction, biometric authentication, and targeted marketing. This paper presents an implementation of an algorithm for binary male/female gender recognition from face images based on a shunting inhibitory convolutional neural network, which has a reported accuracy on the FERET database of 97.2 %. The proposed hardware/software co-design approach using an ARM processor and FPGA can be used as an embedded system for a targeted marketing application to allow real-time processing. A threefold speedup is achieved in the presented approach compared to a software implementation on the ARM processor alone.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationTrends in Applied Knowledge-Based Systems and Data Science - 29th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems, IEA/AIE 2016, Proceedings
EditorsMoonis Ali, Hamido Fujita, Jun Sasaki, Masaki Kurematsu, Ali Selamat
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages541-552
Number of pages12
ISBN (Print)9783319420066
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2016
Externally publishedYes
Event29th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems, IEA/AIE 2016 - Morioka, Japan
Duration: 2 Aug 20164 Aug 2016

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume9799
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference29th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems, IEA/AIE 2016
Country/TerritoryJapan
CityMorioka
Period2/08/164/08/16

Keywords

  • Co-design
  • Computer vision
  • Embedded system
  • FPGA
  • Hardware acceleration
  • Neural network
  • Real-time

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