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AGE AND GENDER DETECTION

Age and gender detection is an essential task in computer vision that aims to
determine a person's approximate age group and gender based on their facial image.
This technology has gained significant attention due to its wide range of applications in
industries such as retail, healthcare, entertainment, and security. Leveraging
advancements in deep learning, age and gender detection systems provide a non-
intrusive way to analyze demographic information, making them valuable in
personalized marketing, human-computer interaction, and surveillance.
The process typically involves three key steps: detecting the face in an image or
video, preprocessing the detected region to align and normalize it, and then classifying
the region into predefined age groups and gender categories. Modern systems use
convolutional neural networks (CNNs) trained on large datasets to achieve high
accuracy in these predictions, even in challenging conditions such as varying lighting,
occlusion, or facial expressions.
Age detection is often performed by predicting one of several broad age ranges,
such as infants, young adults, middle-aged adults, or seniors. Gender detection classifies
individuals into binary categories: male or female. Both tasks are challenging due to the
diversity of facial features, cultural differences, and the natural ambiguity in some
cases.
By combining deep learning models with real-time image processing frameworks
like OpenCV, age and gender detection systems are now accessible and efficient,
enabling their integration into real-world applications. As research in this field
progresses, there is a growing focus on improving the robustness and inclusivity of
these models to address bias and enhance accuracy.

Task.
I have found a small project for this task at
https://github.com/smahesh29/Gender-and-Age-Detection . In this Python Project, the
author used Deep Learning to accurately identify the gender and age of a person from a
single image of a face. He used the models trained by Tal Hassner and Gil Levi. The
predicted gender may be one of ‘Male’ and ‘Female’, and the predicted age may be one
of the following ranges- (0 – 2), (4 – 6), (8 – 12), (15 – 20), (25 – 32), (38 – 43), (48 –
53), (60 – 100) (8 nodes in the final softmax layer). It is very difficult to accurately
guess an exact age from a single image because of factors like makeup, lighting,
obstructions, and facial expressions. And so, he made this a classification problem
instead of making it one of regression.

Dataset.
For this python project, the author used the Adience dataset; the dataset is
available in the public domain and can be found here. This dataset serves as a
benchmark for face photos and is inclusive of various real-world imaging conditions
like noise, lighting, pose, and appearance. The images have been collected from Flickr
albums and distributed under the Creative Commons (CC) license. It has a total of
26,580 photos of 2,284 subjects in eight age ranges (as mentioned above) and is about
1GB in size. The models the author used had been trained on this dataset.

Summary.
 Face Detection: TensorFlow SSD model with MobileNet backbone.
 Age/Gender Detection: Caffe models trained on the Adience dataset.
These models are robust and widely used for their reasonable accuracy in real-world
scenarios.
The system combines MobileNet as a lightweight feature extractor and SSD
(Single Shot Multibox Detector) for efficient object detection. MobileNet utilizes
depthwise separable convolutions, which split computation into channel-specific
lightweight convolutions and pointwise convolutions, significantly reducing
computational cost with minimal accuracy loss. SSD layers, added to MobileNet,
predict bounding boxes to locate objects and class labels to identify them. By leveraging
feature maps at multiple scales, SSD can detect objects of various sizes. The workflow
involves resizing the input image (e.g., 300x300 pixels), extracting features with
MobileNet, and applying SSD for detection, producing outputs that include class labels,
bounding box coordinates, and confidence scores for each detected object.

Results:
Link to the full source code has been provided below:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TGbZFLJuhh9ikN4SQF-yP1bDgRb9LnEi/
edit?usp=sharing&ouid=105246120200641842852&rtpof=true&sd=true

You can download the folder and use it as the access is open to everyone.

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