diff --git a/contrib/gender_models/.gitkeep b/contrib/gender_models/.gitkeep
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index e69de29bb2d1d6434b8b29ae775ad8c2e48c5391..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
diff --git a/contrib/gender_models/gender_mini_XCEPTION.01-0.94.hdf5 b/contrib/gender_models/gender_mini_XCEPTION.01-0.94.hdf5
deleted file mode 100644
index 6f61ab233f0461aa81260f17b67137ab569af776..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
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diff --git a/contrib/src/web/emotion_gender_processor.py b/contrib/src/web/emotion_gender_processor.py
index 31ba4d2aa3403bf4afcb2f28cb7e5fe637af335c..9216162bc7bfacc5966265d7292cdfb691a336c9 100644
--- a/contrib/src/web/emotion_gender_processor.py
+++ b/contrib/src/web/emotion_gender_processor.py
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ class EGProcessor:
             # loading models
             self.face_detection = load_detection_model(models_dir + '/detection_models/haarcascade_frontalface_default.xml')
             self.emotion_classifier = load_model(models_dir + '/emotion_models/fer2013_mini_XCEPTION.102-0.66.hdf5', compile=False)
-            self.gender_classifier = load_model(models_dir + '/gender_models/gender_mini_XCEPTION.01-0.94.hdf5', compile=False)
+            self.gender_classifier = load_model(models_dir + '/gender_mini_XCEPTION.01-0.94.hdf5', compile=False)
 
             if not os.path.exists(dirname):
                 os.mkdir(dirname)
diff --git a/contrib/trained_models/gender_mini_XCEPTION.00-0.90.hdf5 b/contrib/trained_models/gender_mini_XCEPTION.00-0.90.hdf5
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