Combining Classifiers for Deep Learning Mask Face Recognition

This research proposes a single network model architecture for mask face recognition using the FaceNet training method. Three pre-trained convolutional neural networks of different sizes are combined, namely InceptionResNetV2, InceptionV3, and MobileNetV2. The models are augmented by connecting an otherwise fully connected network with a SoftMax output layer. We combine triplet loss and categorical cross-entropy loss to optimize the training process. In addition, the learning rate of the optimizer is dynamically updated using the cosine annealing mechanism, which improves the convergence of the model during training. Mask face recognition (MFR) experimental results on a custom MASK600 dataset show that proposed InceptionResNetV2 and InceptionV3 use only 20 training epochs, and MobileNetV2 uses only 50 training epochs, but to achieve more than 93% accuracy than the previous works of MFR with annealing. In addition to reaching a practical level, it saves time for training models and effectively reduces energy costs.