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Slim-CNN: A Light-Weight CNN for Face Attribute Prediction (arxiv.org)
1 point by sel1 on Jul 7, 2019 | hide | past | pdf | discuss on HN

In plain words: A compact image network builds its layers from cheap filtering steps that split the work into small pieces, so it can judge face traits like smiling or wearing glasses on phones and small devices. It hit 91.24% accuracy while storing at least 25 times fewer learned settings than equally accurate rivals, cutting storage by at least 87%.

Abstract

We introduce a computationally-efficient CNN micro-architecture Slim Module to design a lightweight deep neural network Slim-Net for face attribute prediction. Slim Modules are constructed by assembling depthwise separable convolutions with pointwise convolution to produce a computationally efficient module. The problem of facial attribute prediction is challenging because of the large variations in pose, background, illumination, and dataset imbalance. We stack these Slim Modules to devise a compact CNN which still maintains very high accuracy. Additionally, the neural network has a very low memory footprint which makes it suitable for mobile and embedded applications. Experiments on the CelebA dataset show that Slim-Net achieves an accuracy of 91.24% with at least 25 times fewer parameters than comparably performing methods, which reduces the memory storage requirement of Slim-net by at least 87%.

Ankit Sharma, Hassan Foroosh
arXiv:1907.02157 · cs.CV · submitted Jul 3, 2019
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