Gender recognition from facial images: Two or three dimensions?

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 333-344

  Wenhao, Zhang ^a   Smith, Melvyn L ^a   Smith, Lyndon N ^a   Farooq, Abdul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DATABASE SYSTEMS; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LIGHT SOURCES; SOCIAL SCIENCES; STEREO IMAGE PROCESSING; VECTORS;

3D SURFACE RECONSTRUCTION; DISCRIMINATIVE POWER; GENDER RECOGNITION; PHOTOMETRIC STEREO METHOD; RECONSTRUCTION ACCURACY; RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) FACES; TWO DIMENSIONAL (2 D);

FACE RECOGNITION;

AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; FACE; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PROCEDURES; SEX DIFFERENCE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

DATABASES, FACTUAL; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 84962138813     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: 15208532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.33.000333     Document Type: Article

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