Gender and ethnicity identification from silhouetted face profiles

Proceedings - International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 2441-2444

  Tariq, Usman ^a   Hu, Yuxiao ^a   Huang, Thomas S ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

Face recognition; Image processing; Pattern recognition

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER VISION; IMAGING SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER VISION TECHNIQUES; GENDER IDENTIFICATION; SHAPE CONTEXTS; TEST SAMPLES;

FACE RECOGNITION;

EID: 77951953985     PISSN: 15224880     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICIP.2009.5414117     Document Type: Conference Paper

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