A support vector machine classifier with automatic confidence and its application to gender classification

Neurocomputing

Volumn 74, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1926-1935

  Zheng, Ji ^a   Lu Bao Liang, B L ^a  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Gender classification; Label confidence; Pattern classification; Support vector machine

Indexed keywords

CONFIDENCE VALUES; GENDER CLASSIFICATION; GENERALIZATION PERFORMANCE; LEARNING MACHINES; PATTERN CLASSIFICATION; PATTERN CLASSIFICATION PROBLEMS; QUADRATIC PROGRAMMING PROBLEMS; TRAINING SAMPLE; TRAINING SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

GEARS; SAMPLING; VECTORS;

SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACE PROFILE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; QUALITY CONTROL; SEX DETERMINATION; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE;

EID: 79956011923     PISSN: 09252312     EISSN: 18728286     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neucom.2010.07.032     Document Type: Article

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