Evaluation of gender classification methods with automatically detected and aligned faces

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 541-547

  Makinen, Erno ^a   Raisamo, Roope ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Classifier design and evaluation; Computer vision; Face and gesture classification; Face detection; Interactive systems; Machine learning; Vision I O

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER VISION; FACE RECOGNITION; GESTURE RECOGNITION; INTERACTIVE DEVICES; NEURAL NETWORKS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

CLASSIFICATION RATE; GENDER CLASSIFICATION;

IMAGE CLASSIFICATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BIOMETRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; FACE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BIOMETRY; FACE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEX DETERMINATION (ANALYSIS); SEX FACTORS; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE;

EID: 39549093773     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2007.70800     Document Type: Article

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