MixQuantBio: Towards extreme face and periocular recognition model compression with mixed-precision quantization

Jan Niklas Kolf, Jurek Elliesen, Naser Damer, Fadi Boutros

Abstract: Highlights•In-depth investigation on quantization for face and periocular recognition models.•Detailed investigation on mixed and fixed-precision quantization.•Propose to quantize face and periocular recognition models with mixed-precision.•Extensive evaluation using different low b bit precision and network architectures.•Successfully reducing the memory footprint up to 16x with minimum performance loss.