README.md

---
tags:
- image-to-image
- pytorch
- computer-vision
- face-verification
license: apache-2.0
language:
- en
metrics:
- accuracy
library_name: transformers
---
# FaceVerifyAI-Advanced

A high-performance, multi-task convolutional neural network (CNN) engineered for real-time facial attribute analysis, specializing in precise age estimation, gender classification, and emotion recognition from facial images.

## 📋 Overview

FaceVerifyAI-Advanced is a robust computer vision model developed by QuantaSparkLabs. Released in 2026, this model is built on a custom CNN architecture, delivering highly accurate multi-attribute facial analysis. It is optimized for efficiency and reliability, making it suitable for deployment in security systems, user experience personalization, and interactive applications.

The model is trained end-to-end on a custom synthetic dataset, featuring shared convolutional layers for feature extraction and dedicated task-specific heads for attribute prediction.

## ✨ Core Features

| 🎯 Multi-Task Analysis | ⚡ Technical Excellence |
| :--- | :--- |
| **Age Prediction**: Continuous age estimation with high precision. | **Optimized Architecture**: Custom CNN with shared backbone and task-specific heads. |
| **Gender Classification**: Binary gender classification with exceptional accuracy. | **Efficient Training**: Trained with advanced regularization to prevent overfitting. |
| **Emotion Recognition**: Classifies fundamental emotional states from facial features. | **Production Ready**: Designed for real-time inference with a stable, lightweight footprint. |

## 📊 Performance Benchmarks

### 🏆 Final Validation Metrics
After 50 training epochs, the model achieved exceptional results on the validation set:
*   **Gender Accuracy**: 100.00%
*   **Emotion Accuracy**: 100.00%
*   **Age MAE (Mean Absolute Error)**: 0.0990 years

### 🔬 Reliability & Robustness
The model was trained and validated on a structured, custom synthetic dataset, demonstrating strong generalization on the held-out validation set. Its multi-task design ensures correlated facial features benefit all prediction tasks simultaneously.

## 🏗️ Model Architecture

### High-Level Pipeline
The architecture follows a streamlined, multi-head design:
```
Input Image (3xHxW)
        ↓
[Shared CNN Backbone]
        ↓
[Shared Fully Connected Layers]
        ↓
    ┌──────┼──────┐
    ↓      ↓      ↓
 Age Head Gender Head Emotion Head
 (Regression) (Classifier) (Classifier)
```

### Technical Design
*   **Backbone**: A custom 3-layer CNN with Batch Normalization and Max-Pooling for robust spatial feature extraction.
*   **Feature Integration**: Extracted features are flattened and processed through shared dense layers (512 → 256 units).
*   **Task Heads**: Separate linear output layers for age (1 neuron, regression), gender (2 neurons), and emotion (3 neurons) tasks.

## 🔧 Technical Specifications

| Parameter | Value |
| :--- | :--- |
| **Input Format** | RGB Image Tensor (Channels x Height x Width) |
| **Backbone** | Custom 3-Layer Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) |
| **Training Epochs** | 50 |
| **Optimizer** | Adam (`lr`=0.0001, `betas`=(0.9, 0.999)) |
| **Learning Rate Scheduler** | ReduceLROnPlateau (factor=0.5, patience=5) |
| **Loss Functions** | Age: Mean Squared Error (MSE)<br>Gender & Emotion: Cross-Entropy Loss |
| **Regularization** | Dropout (p=0.3), Batch Normalization |

### Dataset Composition
*   **Type**: Custom Structured Synthetic Face Dataset
*   **Total Samples**: 10,000
*   **Training Split**: 8,000 samples
*   **Validation Split**: 2,000 samples
*   **Attributes**: Age (continuous), Gender (binary), Emotion (3 classes)

## 💻 Quick Start

### Installation
Ensure you have PyTorch installed. The model requires only core libraries.
```bash
pip install torch torchvision
```

### Basic Usage: Loading and Inference
This example shows how to load the model and make a prediction on a preprocessed image tensor.

```python
import torch
import torch.nn as nn
import torch.nn.functional as F

# 1. Define the model architecture (must match training)
class AdvancedFaceVerifyAI(nn.Module):
    def __init__(self, num_gender_classes=2, num_emotion_classes=3):
        super(AdvancedFaceVerifyAI, self).__init__()
        # Convolutional backbone
        self.conv1 = nn.Conv2d(3, 32, kernel_size=3, padding=1)
        self.bn1 = nn.BatchNorm2d(32)
        self.conv2 = nn.Conv2d(32, 64, kernel_size=3, padding=1)
        self.bn2 = nn.BatchNorm2d(64)
        self.conv3 = nn.Conv2d(64, 128, kernel_size=3, padding=1)
        self.bn3 = nn.BatchNorm2d(128)
        self.pool = nn.MaxPool2d(kernel_size=2, stride=2)
        self.dropout = nn.Dropout(0.3)
        
        # Calculate flattened dimension
        self._to_linear = 128 * (64 // (2**3)) * (64 // (2**3))
        
        # Shared fully connected layers
        self.fc1 = nn.Linear(self._to_linear, 512)
        self.fc_bn1 = nn.BatchNorm1d(512)
        self.fc2 = nn.Linear(512, 256)
        self.fc_bn2 = nn.BatchNorm1d(256)
        
        # Task-specific output heads
        self.age_head = nn.Linear(256, 1)            # Regression
        self.gender_head = nn.Linear(256, num_gender_classes) # Classification
        self.emotion_head = nn.Linear(256, num_emotion_classes) # Classification

    def forward(self, x):
        # Forward pass through the network
        x = self.pool(F.relu(self.bn1(self.conv1(x))))
        x = self.dropout(x)
        x = self.pool(F.relu(self.bn2(self.conv2(x))))
        x = self.dropout(x)
        x = self.pool(F.relu(self.bn3(self.conv3(x))))
        x = self.dropout(x)
        
        x = x.view(-1, self._to_linear)
        
        x = F.relu(self.fc_bn1(self.fc1(x)))
        x = self.dropout(x)
        x = F.relu(self.fc_bn2(self.fc2(x)))
        x = self.dropout(x)
        
        age_out = self.age_head(x)
        gender_out = self.gender_head(x)
        emotion_out = self.emotion_head(x)
        
        return age_out, gender_out, emotion_out

# 2. Instantiate and load the pre-trained weights
model = AdvancedFaceVerifyAI(num_gender_classes=2, num_emotion_classes=3)

# Download 'best_advanced_face_verify_ai_model.pth' from the model repo first
state_dict = torch.load('best_advanced_face_verify_ai_model.pth', map_location='cpu')
model.load_state_dict(state_dict)
model.eval()  # Set to evaluation mode

print("✅ FaceVerifyAI-Advanced model loaded successfully!")

# 3. Run inference (assuming 'image_tensor' is your preprocessed input)
# with torch.no_grad():
#     age_pred, gender_pred, emotion_pred = model(image_tensor)
#     
#     predicted_age = age_pred.item()
#     predicted_gender = torch.argmax(gender_pred, dim=1).item()  # Returns 0 or 1
#     predicted_emotion = torch.argmax(emotion_pred, dim=1).item() # Returns 0, 1, or 2
#     
#     print(f"Predicted Age: {predicted_age:.2f} years")
#     print(f"Predicted Gender Index: {predicted_gender}")
#     print(f"Predicted Emotion Index: {predicted_emotion}")
```

### Real-Time Pipeline Example
For a complete application, integrate the model with an image preprocessing pipeline (face detection, alignment, normalization).

## 🚀 Deployment Options

### Hardware Requirements

| Environment | VRAM / RAM | Inference Speed | Recommended For |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| **GPU (Optimal)** | 1-2 GB | ⚡⚡⚡ Very Fast | Servers, real-time analysis systems |
| **CPU (Efficient)** | 500 MB - 1 GB | ⚡ Fast | Edge devices, kiosks, offline applications |
| **Mobile (Converted)** | < 500 MB | ⚡ Medium | On-device mobile apps (requires conversion to ONNX/TFLite) |

### Suggested Deployment Stack
*   **API Server**: Wrap the model in a FastAPI or Flask server for RESTful endpoints.
*   **Docker Container**: Package dependencies for consistent deployment.
    ```dockerfile
    FROM pytorch/pytorch:2.0.1-cuda11.7-cudnn8-runtime
    WORKDIR /app
    COPY requirements.txt .
    RUN pip install --no-cache-dir -r requirements.txt
    COPY . .
    CMD ["python", "api_server.py"]
    ```

## 📁 Repository Structure
```
FaceVerifyAI-Advanced/
├── README.md                       # This file
├── best_advanced_face_verify_ai_model.pth # Main model weights
```

## ⚠️ Limitations & Ethical Considerations

### Technical Limitations
*   **Input Dependency**: Accuracy is highly dependent on proper face detection, alignment, and lighting normalization in the input pipeline.
*   **Dataset Scope**: Trained on synthetic data; performance may vary on real-world images with extreme poses, occlusions, or uncommon demographics.
*   **Emotion Classes**: Recognizes a limited set (3) of fundamental emotions. Not a substitute for comprehensive psychological analysis.

### Ethical Use & Bias
*   **Inherent Bias**: Like all AI models, it may reflect biases present in the training data. Comprehensive testing across diverse demographics is critical before deployment.
*   **Privacy**: Must be used in compliance with local privacy regulations (e.g., GDPR, CCPA). Users should be informed when their facial data is being processed.
*   **Use Case Restriction**: **Not intended** for high-stakes decision-making in legal, hiring, or security access control without human oversight and additional safeguards.

## 🔄 Version History

| Version | Date | Key Updates |
| :--- | :--- | :--- |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-01-26 | Initial public release of FaceVerifyAI-Advanced. |

## 📄 License & Citation

**License:** Apache 2.0

**Citation:**
```bibtex
@misc{faceverifyai2026,
  title={FaceVerifyAI-Advanced: A Multi-Task Model for Facial Attribute Analysis},
  author={QuantaSparkLabs},
  year={2026},
  url={https://huggingface.co/QuantaSparkLabs/FaceVerifyAI-Advanced}
}
```

## 👥 Credits & Acknowledgments

*   **Development & Training**: QuantaSparkLabs AI Team.
*   **Dataset Synthesis**: Internal tools for generating structured synthetic face data.
*   **Framework**: Built with PyTorch.

## 🤝 Contributing & Support

*   **Reporting Issues**: Please open an issue on the Hugging Face model repository detailing the problem, your environment, and steps to reproduce.
*   **Support**: For questions, use the community discussion tab on the model page.

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<center>Built with ❤️ by QuantaSparkLabs<br>Model ID: FaceVerifyAI-Advanced • Release: 2026</center>