Request for verifying my steps for training

[gd1925]

Hi,

I have been working on trying to understand the steps for training and obtaining my model for - age_gender_tf2_224_deep-03-0.13-0.97.pb
I followed a previously asked question - #2 (comment)
mentioning the two scripts - facerec_keras_train.py and age_gender_train.py. As per my understanding, the following two step training process is required :

1. Training the baseline model with facerec_keras_train.py:

• Download the VGGFace2 dataset.
• Run the Training Script - Execute facerec_keras_train.py to start the training on VGGFace2.
• (I presume this will give me - vgg2_mobilenet.pb

2. Training the age and gender model with age_gender_train.py:

• Data Preparation: Concatenate IMDB-Wiki and Adience datasets
• Organize data into two main folders: age and gender. Each of them should contain train and val subfolders that include images for training and validation respectively.
• Correct age mistakes manually in IMDB-Wiki and utilize the midpoint of age ranges in Adience as ground truth labels (not sure about this)
• Adjust Paths and Labels : Ensure paths in age_gender_train.py are correctly pointing to the data.
• Run the Training Script: Execute age_gender_train.py

Is my understanding correct?
Also another issue I am facing is - I haven't been able to download VGGFace2 Dataset. While I came across VGGFace2 HQ repo so I have downloaded these - https://github.com/NNNNAI/VGGFace2-HQ but would training on these give a different model backbone model?
Thank you so much in advance!!

[mingrongchen]

我已收到您的邮件，谢谢！