Gender classification using a new pyramidal neural

S. L. Phung*, A. Bouzerdoum

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Abstract

We propose a novel neural network for classification of visual patterns. The new network, called pyramidal neural network or PyraNet, has a hierarchical structure with two types of processing layers, namely pyramidal layers and 1-D layers. The PyraNet is motivated by two concepts: the image pyramids and local receptive fields. In the new network, nonlinear 2-D are trained to perform both 2-D analysis and data reduction. In this paper, we present a fast training method for the PyraNet that is based on resilient back-propagation and weight decay, and apply the new network to classify gender from facial images.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationNeural Information Processing - 13th International Conference, ICONIP 2006, Proceedings
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages207-216
Number of pages10
ISBN (Print)3540464816, 9783540464815
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2006
Externally publishedYes
Event13th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, ICONIP 2006 - Hong Kong, China
Duration: 3 Oct 20066 Oct 2006

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume4233 LNCS - II
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference13th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, ICONIP 2006
Country/TerritoryChina
CityHong Kong
Period3/10/066/10/06

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