In 2017, while I was learning Python and Deep Learning simultaneously, I developed a lightweight video-based classifier that uses a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) to categorize human faces as male or female. I built the network using hand-curated datasets and manually processed the data, training the model for weeks on my laptop with an AMD Radeon M230 GPU to achieve reasonably good results.
I also blogged about my process of building this project which you can read here: