Face recognition (FR) methods report significant performance by adopting the convolutional neural network (CNN) based learning methods. Although CNNs are mostly trained by optimizing the softmax loss, the recent trend shows an improvement of accuracy with different strategies, such as task-specific CNN learning with different loss functions, fine-tuning on target dataset, metric learning and concatenating features from multiple CNNs. Incorporating these tasks obviously requires additional efforts. Moreover, it demotivates the discovery of efficient CNN models for FR which are trained only with identity labels. We focus on this fact and propose an easily trainable and single CNN based FR method. Our CNN model exploits the residual learning framework. Additionally, it uses normalized features to compute the loss. Our extensive experiments show excellent generalization on different datasets. We obtain very competitive and state-of-the-art results on the LFW, IJB-A, YouTube faces and CACD datasets.

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In this paper, we propose a new approach for speeding up the decision making of Support Vector Classifiers (SVC) in the context of multi-class classification. A twostage system embedded within a probabilistic framework is presented. In the first stage we pre-estimate the posterior probabilities with a model-based approach and we re-estimate only the highest probabilities with appropriate SVCs in the second stage. We have tested our system on the benchmark database MNIST and the results show that our dynamic classification process allows to speedup the full "pairwise coupling" SVCs by a factor of 7.7 while preserving the accuracy. In addition, although the "one against all" strategy estimate slightly betters probabilities, our modular architecture seems more adapted to large multi-class problems.