Age and Gender Detection to Detect the Manipulated Images using CNN

There has been a proliferation of photographs during the last two decades. The number of photographs of human faces accessible has exploded in recent years, thanks in large part to the proliferation of smartphones and the rise in popularity of selfies. This has led to a surge in research into methods for accurately determining a person age and gender solely from a photograph of the face. This research work intends to tackle this intricate challenge. Specifically, this study examines methods for determining a person's age, gender, and other characteristics based only on a static portrait of their face. Distinct models are trained to perform each task and compare the results of utilizing pre-trained CNN (Convolutional Neural Network) designs like VGG16 and ResNet50 and SE-ResNet50 on the VGGFace2 dataset to train the features collected by these networks. In addition to sharing the best practices to perform feature extraction using machine learning, this study also provides a benchmark performance analysis on several techniques. Even the most basic linear regression can be trained so that the extracted data performs better, however, CNNs were trained from scratch for age estimation.