Evaluation of gender classification methods on thermal and near-infrared face images

2011 International Joint Conference on Biometrics, IJCB 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Chen, Cunjian ^a   Ross, Arun ^a  

^a West Virginia University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISCRIMINATIVE CLASSIFIERS; FACE IMAGES; GENDER CLASSIFICATION; HUMAN SUBJECTS; LOCAL BINARY PATTERNS; MACHINE-LEARNING; NEAR INFRA RED; THERMAL SPECTRA; VISIBLE SPECTRA;

BIOMETRICS; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); INFRARED DEVICES;

SOCIAL SCIENCES;

EID: 84862916904     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IJCB.2011.6117544     Document Type: Conference Paper

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