Gender determination from periocular images using deep learning based EfficientNet architecture

In this study, we obtain a sex prediction algorithm based on CNN in two ways - building a red Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) model from scratch and via transfer learning. We built a model from scratch and compared it with fine-tuned EfficientNetB1. We use these models for gender determination using periocular images and compare the two models depending on the accuracy of the models. The CNN model proposed from scratch yields an accuracy of 94.46% while the fine-tuned EfficientNetB1 yields an accuracy of 97.94%. This paper is one of the first works in determining gender from periocular images in the visible spectrum using a CNN model built from the outset.