A study on gait-based gender classification

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1905-1910

  Yu, Shiqi ^a,b   Tan, Tieniu ^a   Huang, Kaiqi ^a   Jia, Kui ^b   Wu, Xinyu ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Appearance based features; Gait analysis; Gender classification; Human silhouette

Indexed keywords

APPEARANCE-BASED FEATURES; AUTOMATIC METHOD; CARRYING OBJECTS; CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; CONTROLLED ENVIRONMENT; GENDER CLASSIFICATION; HUMAN COMPONENTS; HUMAN GAIT; HUMAN KNOWLEDGE; HUMAN OBSERVERS; HUMAN SILHOUETTE; POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS; PRIOR KNOWLEDGE; PSYCHOLOGICAL EXPERIMENT; REAL APPLICATIONS; SOCIAL ACTIVITIES;

GAIT ANALYSIS;

EXPERIMENTS;

AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; LETTER; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEX DIFFERENCE; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; SEX FACTORS; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

EID: 68149132426     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2009.2020535     Document Type: Article

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