Toward Affective Intelligence: Real-Time Age, Gender, and Emotion Detection via Multi-CNN and MTCNN Integration
摘要
In the age of artificial intelligence and automation, understanding human emotions through facial cues has become critical for enhancing user interaction and service personalization. Despite the progress in facial recognition, most models fail to simultaneously address age, gender, and emotional state detection under real-world conditions. This work proposes a deep learning-based facial detection model that integrates MTCNN for face localization and separate convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for age, gender, and emotion detection and classification. Using three benchmark datasets—UTKFace, CK+48, and combined_faces—we trained and evaluated specialized models under varying lighting, angles, and occlusions. The average accuracy of our model that detects and classifies human age, gender, and emotion is around 92%. The emotion recognition model achieved an accuracy of 99%, while age and gender models reported 89% and 88% respectively on validation sets. These findings demonstrate the model’s robustness and practical applicability in dynamic environments such as retail stores, where real-time detection can enhance customer experience through tailored support. The proposed solution contributes to the growing field of affective computing and sets the stage for further exploration in intelligent human-centered applications.