Gender Classification from Face Images Using Mutual Information and Feature Fusion

International Journal of Optomechatronics

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 92-119

  Perez, Claudio ^a   Tapia, Juan ^a   Estévez, Pablo ^a   Held, Claudio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Feature fusion; feature selection; gender classification; mutual information; real time gender classification

Indexed keywords

CONDITIONAL MUTUAL INFORMATION; FACE IMAGES; FEATURE FUSION; FERET DATABASE; FRONTAL FACES; FUSION OF FEATURES; GENDER CLASSIFICATION; MAXIMAL RELEVANCE; MUTUAL INFORMATION MEASURES; MUTUAL INFORMATIONS; NORMALIZED MUTUAL INFORMATION; SPATIAL SCALE;

FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE TEXTURE;

SOCIAL SCIENCES;

EID: 84859509758     PISSN: 15599612     EISSN: 15599620     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15599612.2012.663463     Document Type: Article

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