Robust gender recognition by exploiting facial attributes dependencies

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 228-234

  Bekios Calfa, Juan ^a,c   Buenaposada, José M ^b,c   Baumela, Luis ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DEL NORTE   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSIDAD REY JUAN CARLOS   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Facial attribute dependencies; Gender estimation; Linear Discriminant Analysis

Indexed keywords

DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FACE RECOGNITION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION STATISTICS;

ATTRIBUTES DEPENDENCIES; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FACE ALIGNMENT; FACIAL ATTRIBUTE DEPENDENCIES; GENDER ESTIMATIONS; GENDER RECOGNITION; LINEAR DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; STATE OF THE ART;

SOCIAL SCIENCES;

EID: 84893127623     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patrec.2013.04.028     Document Type: Article

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