Gender classification by combining clothing, hair and facial component classifiers

Neurocomputing

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 18-27

  Li, Bing ^a   Lian, Xiao Chen ^a   Lu, Bao Liang ^a  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Classifier combination; Clothing feature; Facial components; Gender classification; Hair feature; Local binary pattern; Support vector machine

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFIER COMBINATION; CLOTHING FEATURE; FACIAL COMPONENTS; GENDER CLASSIFICATION; HAIR FEATURE; LOCAL BINARY PATTERNS; SUPPORT VECTOR;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BIOMETRY; CHIN; CLOTHING; EYE; FACE; FOREHEAD; HAIR; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MOUTH; NOSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SEX DETERMINATION; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE;

EID: 80555123017     PISSN: 09252312     EISSN: 18728286     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neucom.2011.01.028     Document Type: Article

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