import tensorflow as tf

    """Center loss based on the paper "A Discriminative Feature Learning Approach for Deep Face Recognition"
       (http://ydwen.github.io/papers/WenECCV16.pdf)
    """
    nrof_features = features.get_shape()[1]
    centers = tf.get_variable('centers', [nrof_classes, nrof_features], dtype=tf.float32,
        initializer=tf.constant_initializer(0), trainable=False)
    label = tf.reshape(label, [-1])
    centers_batch = tf.gather(centers, label)
    diff = (1 - alfa) * (centers_batch - features)
    centers = tf.scatter_sub(centers, label, diff)
    # centers = tf.nn.l2_normalize(centers, 1, 1e-10, name='centers_norm')
    loss = tf.reduce_mean(tf.square(features - centers_batch))
    return loss, centers

