Title
Lgcn: Learnable Gabor Convolution Network For Human Gender Recognition In The Wild
Abstract
Human gender recognition in the wild is a challenging task due to complex face variations, such as poses, lighting, occlusions, etc. In this letter, learnable Gabor convolutional network (LGCN), a new neural network computing framework for gender recognition was proposed. In LGCN, a learnable Gabor filter (LGF) is introduced and combined with the convolutional neural network (CNN). Specifically, the proposed framework is constructed by replacing some first layer convolutional kernels of a standard CNN with LGFs. Here, LGFs learn intrinsic parameters by using standard back propagation method, so that the values of those parameters are no longer fixed by experience as traditional methods, but can be modified by self-learning automatically. In addition, the performance of LGCN in gender recognition is further improved by applying a proposed feature combination strategy. The experimental results demonstrate that, compared to the standard CNNs with identical network architecture, our approach achieves better performance on three challenging public datasets without introducing any sacrifice in parameter size.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1587/transinf.2018EDL8239
IEICE TRANSACTIONS ON INFORMATION AND SYSTEMS
Keywords
Field
DocType
gender recognition, learnable Gabor convolutional neural network, learnable Gabor filter, back propagation
Pattern recognition,Convolution,Computer science,Artificial intelligence,Backpropagation
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
E102D
10
1745-1361
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.37
0
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Chen Peng11881121.56
Weijun Li23716.70
Linjun Sun322.40
Xin Ning4115.80
Lina Yu521.73
Liping Zhang633.09