Automatic gender recognition based on pixel-pattern-based texture feature

Journal of Real-Time Image Processing

Volumn 3, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 109-116

  Lu, Huchuan ^a   Huang, Yingjie ^a   Chen, Yenwei ^a,b   Yang, Deli ^a  

^a DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b RITSUMEIKAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adaboost; Gabor filter; Gender recognition; PPBTF; SVM classifier

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC PROGRAMMING; EDGE DETECTION; PIXELS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

FACIAL REPRESENTATION; GABOR FILTERS; GENDER RECOGNITION; PIXEL-PATTERN-BASED TEXTURE FEATURE (PPBTF);

FACE RECOGNITION;

EID: 41349090994     PISSN: 18618200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11554-008-0072-2     Document Type: Article

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