An experimental comparison of gender classification methods

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1544-1556

  Mäkinen, Erno ^a   Raisamo, Roope ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Automatic face analysis; Face database; Face detection; Gender classification; Performance evaluation

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS;

AUTOMATIC FACE ANALYSIS; FACE DATABASE; GENDER CLASSIFICATION; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION;

FACE RECOGNITION;

EID: 44449124660     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patrec.2008.03.016     Document Type: Article

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