Three robust features extraction approaches for facial gender classification

Visual Computer

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 19-31

  Berbar, Mohamed Abdou ^a  

^a KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Discrete cosine transform; Faces gender classification; Grey level cooccurrence matrix (GLCM); SVM

Indexed keywords

CO-OCCURRENCE-MATRIX; DISCRETE COSINE TRANSFORM(DCT); FEATURES EXTRACTION; GENDER CLASSIFICATION; GRAY LEVEL CO-OCCURRENCE MATRIX; ROBUST APPROACHES; SVM; TEXTURE FEATURES;

DATABASE SYSTEMS; DISCRETE COSINE TRANSFORMS; TEXTURES;

SOCIAL SCIENCES;

EID: 84893814991     PISSN: 01782789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00371-013-0774-8     Document Type: Article

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