Can gender be predicted from near-infrared face images?

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6754 LNCS, Issue PART 2, 2011, Pages 120-129

  Ross, Arun ^a   Chen, Cunjian ^a  

^a West Virginia University   (United States)

Author keywords

Biometrics; Cross Spectral; Faces; Gender; Near Infrared

Indexed keywords

CROSS-SPECTRAL; FACE IMAGES; FACES; FACIAL IMAGES; GENDER; GENDER CLASSIFICATION; ILLUMINATION NORMALIZATION; NEAR INFRARED; NEAR INFRARED SPECTRA; NIR IMAGE; VISIBLE SPECTRA;

BIOMETRICS; COMPUTER VISION; FACE RECOGNITION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; SPECTROSCOPY;

INFRARED DEVICES;

EID: 79960317532     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-21596-4_13     Document Type: Conference Paper

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