Facial Recognition via Transfer Learning: Fine-tuning Keras_vggface

The challenge of developing facial recognition systems has been the focus of many research efforts in recent years and has numerous applications in areas such as security, entertainment, and biometrics. Recently, most progress in this field has come from training very deep neural networks on massive datasets. Here, we use a pre-trained face recognition model and perform transfer learning to produce a network that is capable of making accurate predictions on a much smaller dataset. We also compare our results with results produced by a selection of classical algorithms on the same dataset.