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Interesting Python Project of Gender and Age Detection With OpenCV

This document describes a Python project for gender and age detection using OpenCV. It discusses computer vision, OpenCV, convolutional neural networks, the project objective of building a gender and age detector from images, and the steps to practice the project using pretrained models. Examples are given applying the project to images and outputting the predicted gender and age range.

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Interesting Python Project of Gender and Age Detection With OpenCV

This document describes a Python project for gender and age detection using OpenCV. It discusses computer vision, OpenCV, convolutional neural networks, the project objective of building a gender and age detector from images, and the steps to practice the project using pretrained models. Examples are given applying the project to images and outputting the predicted gender and age range.

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Interesting Python Project of

Gender and Age Detection with


OpenCV
Today, we are introducing our fourth python project that is gender and age
detection with OpenCV. It is very interesting and one of my favorite project.
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Without talking much, let’s start the gender and age detection Python Project.

Gender and Age Detection Python Project


First introducing you with the terminologies used in this advanced python
project of gender and age detection –

What is Computer Vision?


Computer Vision is the field of study that enables computers to see and
identify digital images and videos as a human would. The challenges it faces
largely follow from the limited understanding of biological vision. Computer
Vision involves acquiring, processing, analyzing, and understanding digital
images to extract high-dimensional data from the real world in order to
generate symbolic or numerical information which can then be used to make
decisions. The process often includes practices like object recognition, video
tracking, motion estimation, and image restoration.
What is OpenCV?
OpenCV is short for Open Source Computer Vision. Intuitively by the name, it
is an open-source Computer Vision and Machine Learning library. This library
is capable of processing real-time image and video while also boasting
analytical capabilities. It supports the Deep Learning frameworks TensorFlow,
Caffe, and PyTorch.
What is a CNN?
A Convolutional Neural Network is a deep neural network (DNN) widely used
for the purposes of image recognition and processing and NLP. Also known as
a ConvNet, a CNN has input and output layers, and multiple hidden layers,
many of which are convolutional. In a way, CNNs are regularized multilayer
perceptrons.
Gender and Age Detection Python Project- Objective
To build a gender and age detector that can approximately guess the gender
and age of the person (face) in a picture using Deep Learning on the Adience
dataset.
Gender and Age Detection – About the Project
In this Python Project, we will use Deep Learning to accurately identify the
gender and age of a person from a single image of a face. We will use 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, we make this a
classification problem instead of making it one of regression.
The CNN Architecture
The convolutional neural network for this python project has 3 convolutional
layers:

 Convolutional layer; 96 nodes, kernel size 7


 Convolutional layer; 256 nodes, kernel size 5
 Convolutional layer; 384 nodes, kernel size 3
It has 2 fully connected layers, each with 512 nodes, and a final output layer of
softmax type.
To go about the python project, we’ll:

 Detect faces
 Classify into Male/Female
 Classify into one of the 8 age ranges
 Put the results on the image and display it
The Dataset
For this python project, we’ll use the Adience dataset; the dataset is available
in the public domain and you can find it 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 we will use
have been trained on this dataset.
Prerequisites
You’ll need to install OpenCV (cv2) to be able to run this project. You can do
this with pip-

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Other packages you’ll be needing are math and argparse, but those come as
part of the standard Python library.

Steps for practicing gender and age detection


python project
1. Download this zip. Unzip it and put its contents in a directory you’ll call gad.
The contents of this zip are:

 opencv_face_detector.pbtxt
 opencv_face_detector_uint8.pb
 age_deploy.prototxt
 age_net.caffemodel
 gender_deploy.prototxt
 gender_net.caffemodel
 a few pictures to try the project on
For face detection, we have a .pb file- this is a protobuf file (protocol buffer); it
holds the graph definition and the trained weights of the model. We can use
this to run the trained model. And while a .pb file holds the protobuf in binary
format, one with the .pbtxt extension holds it in text format. These are
TensorFlow files. For age and gender, the .prototxt files describe the network
configuration and the .caffemodel file defines the internal states of the
parameters of the layers.

2. We use the argparse library to create an argument parser so we can get the
image argument from the command prompt. We make it parse the argument
holding the path to the image to classify gender and age for.

3. For face, age, and gender, initialize protocol buffer and model.

4. Initialize the mean values for the model and the lists of age ranges and
genders to classify from.

5. Now, use the readNet() method to load the networks. The first parameter
holds trained weights and the second carries network configuration.

6. Let’s capture video stream in case you’d like to classify on a webcam’s


stream. Set padding to 20.

7. Now until any key is pressed, we read the stream and store the content into
the names hasFrame and frame. If it isn’t a video, it must wait, and so we call
up waitKey() from cv2, then break.

8. Let’s make a call to the highlightFace() function with the faceNet and frame
parameters, and what this returns, we will store in the names resultImg and
faceBoxes. And if we got 0 faceBoxes, it means there was no face to detect.
Here, net is faceNet- this model is the DNN Face Detector and holds only
about 2.7MB on disk.
 Create a shallow copy of frame and get its height and width.
 Create a blob from the shallow copy.
 Set the input and make a forward pass to the network.
 faceBoxes is an empty list now. for each value in 0 to 127, define the
confidence (between 0 and 1). Wherever we find the confidence
greater than the confidence threshold, which is 0.7, we get the x1, y1,
x2, and y2 coordinates and append a list of those to faceBoxes.
 Then, we put up rectangles on the image for each such list of
coordinates and return two things: the shallow copy and the list of
faceBoxes.
9. But if there are indeed faceBoxes, for each of those, we define the face,
create a 4-dimensional blob from the image. In doing this, we scale it, resize it,
and pass in the mean values.

10. We feed the input and give the network a forward pass to get the
confidence of the two class. Whichever is higher, that is the gender of the
person in the picture.

11. Then, we do the same thing for age.

12. We’ll add the gender and age texts to the resulting image and display it
with imshow().

Python Project Examples for Gender and Age


Detection
Let’s try this gender and age classifier out on some of our own images now.

We’ll get to the command prompt, run our script with the image option and
specify an image to classify:

Python Project Example 1 


Output:

Python Project Example 2

Output:
Python Project Example 3

Output:

Python Project Example 4 

Output:
Python Project Example 5 

Output:

Python project Example 6

Output:

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