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In addition, despite the success of CNN for gender classification, deep neural networks were never applied for age classification. The published works in this area mostly concentrate on English and Arabic languages. In addition to Arabic and English, this work also considers Hebrew, which was much less studied. Following the success of bilinear Convolutional Neural Network (B-CNN) for fine-grained classification, we propose a novel implementation of a B-CNN with ResNet blocks. To our knowledge, this is the first time the bilinear CNN is applied for writer demographics classification. In particular, this is the first attempt to apply a deep neural network for the age classification. We perform experiments on documents from three benchmark datasets written in three different languages and provide a thorough comparison with the results reported in the literature. B-ResNet was top-ranked in all tasks. In particular, B-ResNet outperformed other models on KHATT and QUWI datasets on gender classification.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s22249650","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,12,9]],"date-time":"2022-12-09T03:59:46Z","timestamp":1670558386000},"page":"9650","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":15,"title":["Automatic Gender and Age Classification from Offline Handwriting with Bilinear ResNet"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"22","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8542-8342","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Irina","family":"Rabaev","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Software Engineering Department, Shamoon College of Engineering, 56 Bialik St., Be\u2019er Sheva 8410802, Israel"}]},{"given":"Izadeen","family":"Alkoran","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Software Engineering Department, Shamoon College of Engineering, 56 Bialik St., Be\u2019er Sheva 8410802, Israel"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8763-7068","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Odai","family":"Wattad","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Software Engineering Department, Shamoon College of Engineering, 56 Bialik St., Be\u2019er Sheva 8410802, Israel"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3044-3681","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Marina","family":"Litvak","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Software Engineering Department, Shamoon College of Engineering, 56 Bialik St., Be\u2019er Sheva 8410802, Israel"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,12,9]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Huber, R.A., and Headrick, A.M. 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