How to use dnn_gender_classifier_v1.dat in Python?

[mowshon]

Hello, @davisking !

How to load the dnn_gender_classifier_v1.dat in Python ?
I can't find alternative for C++ deserialize in Python.

[mowshon]

@davisking can you take a look at https://github.com/mowshon/age-and-gender

I don't have good skill in C++, but did my best for running this code on python.

[arrufat]

Nice, I've seen that you open images directly from the path. You can get some inspiration from this example to make it work with PIL images or numpy arrays directly.

https://github.com/arrufat/wallyfinder

EDIT:
In particular, these two functions
https://github.com/arrufat/wallyfinder/blob/2a3ddc1af2b676ad434574fecd9be0004c0fcc23/src/wallyfinder.cpp#L8-L42

[mowshon]

@arrufat wow! I realy need this! Thank you!

[Cydral]

@mowshon I'm really glad to see that the models I've released can find a usage... I am working on improving the model for enhancing gender detection for certain ethnic groups that are apparently under-represented in the original database.