Human Gender Classification Using Transfer Learning via Pareto Frontier CNN Networks

Abstract

Human gender is deemed as a prime demographic trait due to its various usage in the practical domain. Human gender classification in an unconstrained environment is a sophisticated task due to large variations in the image scenarios. Due to the multifariousness of internet images, the classification accuracy suffers from traditional machine learning methods. The aim of this research is to streamline the gender classification process using the transfer learning concept. This research proposes a framework that performs automatic gender classification in unconstrained internet images deploying Pareto frontier deep learning networks; GoogleNet, SqueezeNet, and ResNet50. We analyze the experiment with three different Pareto frontier Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) models pre-trained on ImageNet. The massive experiments demonstrate that the performance of the Pareto frontier CNN networks is remarkable in the unconstrained internet image dataset as well as in the frontal images that pave the way to developing an automatic gender classification system.