Computer and Modernization

Previous Articles     Next Articles

Multi-taskFaceAttributeRecognitionBasedonUnbalancedClasses

  

  1. (CollegeofComputerScienceandTechnology,NanjingUniversityofAeronauticsandAstronautics,Nanjing210016,China)
  • Received:2017-12-05 Online:2018-07-05 Published:2018-07-05

Abstract: Therecognitionofattributesplaysanimportantroleinobjectrecognition,suchasfaceverification,activityrecognitioninvideo.Theimprovementofattributerecognitionwillleadtobetterresultfortheapplicationwhichusestheseattributes.Inrecentyears,therearesomeworksfocusingontheattributelearning.However,attributeshavebeenconsideredtobeindependentinmostworks.Inpractice,weknowthatisnotrightandmanyattributesarestronglyrelated,suchasnobeardandfemale,baldandhaircolor.Inaddition,mostworksneglecttheunbalanceofdifferenceclasssamples,suchasimagesofbaldisaverysmallpartofsamples.Basedonthetwoobservations,weproposeamulti-taskunbalancedfacialattributerecognitionframeworkusingmodifiedDensenet.Toacertaindegrees,theframeworkrelievestheunbalancedproblem.Theproposedmethodoutperformsothermethods,haslessparametersandrunsfaster.Wedemonstratetheeffectivenessofourmethodontwochallengingpubliclyavailabledatasets.

Key words: faceattribute, deeplearning, multi-tasklearning, multi-labellearning

CLC Number: