The relationship between the shape and gender of a face, with particular application to automatic gender classification, has been the subject of significant research in recent years. Determining the gender of a face, ...The relationship between the shape and gender of a face, with particular application to automatic gender classification, has been the subject of significant research in recent years. Determining the gender of a face, especially when dealing with unseen examples, presents a major challenge. This is especially true for certain age groups, such as teenagers, due to their rapid development at this phase of life. This study proposes a new set of facial morphological descriptors,based on 3D geodesic path curvatures, and uses them for gender analysis. Their goal is to discern key facial areas related to gender, specifically suited to the task of gender classification. These new curvature-based features are extracted along the geodesic path between two biological landmarks located in key facial areas.Classification performance based on the new features is compared with that achieved using the Euclidean and geodesic distance measures traditionally used in gender analysis and classification. Five different experiments were conducted on a large teenage face database(4745 faces from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children) to investigate and justify the use of the proposed curvature features. Our experiments show that the combination of the new features with geodesic distances provides a classification accuracy of 89%. They also show that nose-related traits provide the most discriminative facial feature for gender classification, with the most discriminative features lying along the 3D face profile curve.展开更多
Gender classification is an important task in automated face analysis. Most existing approaches for gender classification use only raw/aligned face images after face detection as input. These methods exhibit fair clas...Gender classification is an important task in automated face analysis. Most existing approaches for gender classification use only raw/aligned face images after face detection as input. These methods exhibit fair classification ability under constrained conditions, in which face images are acquired under similar illumination with similar poses. The performances of these methods may deteriorate when face images show drastic variances in poses and occlusion as routinely encountered in real-world data. The reduction in the performances of current gender classification methods may be attributed to the sensitiveness of features to image translations. This work proposes to alleviate this sensitivity by introducing a majority voting procedure that involves multiple face patches.Specifically, this work utilizes a deep learning method based on multiple large patches. Several Convolutional Neural Networks(CNN) are trained on individual, predefined patches that reflect various image resolutions and partial cropping. The decisions of each CNN are aggregated through majority voting to obtain the final gender classification accurately. Extensive experiments are conducted on four gender classification databases, including Labeled Face in-the-Wild(LFW), CelebA, ColorFeret, and All-Age Faces database, a novel database collected by our group. Each individual patch is evaluated, and complementary patches are selected for voting. We show that the classification accuracy of our method is comparable with that of state-of-the-art systems. This characteristic validates the effectiveness of our proposed method.展开更多
Gender classification is used in numerous applications such as biometrics,criminology,surveillance,HCI,and business profiling.Although biometric factors like gait,face,hand shape,and iris have been used to classify pe...Gender classification is used in numerous applications such as biometrics,criminology,surveillance,HCI,and business profiling.Although biometric factors like gait,face,hand shape,and iris have been used to classify people into genders,the majority of research has focused on facial traits due to their more recognizable qualities.This research employs fingerprints to classify gender,with the intention of being relevant for future studies.Several methods for gender classification utilizing fingerprints have been presented in the literature,including ANN,KNN,Naive Bayes,the Gaussian mixture model,and deep learning-based classifiers.Although these classifiers have shown good classification accuracy,gender classification remains an unexplored field of study that necessitates the development of new approaches to enhance recognition accuracy,computation,and running time.In this paper,a CNN-SVM hybrid framework for gender classification from fingerprints is proposed,where preprocessing,feature extraction,and classification are the three main components.The main goal of this study is to use CNN to extract fingerprint information.These features are then sent to an SVM classifier to determine gender.The hybrid model’s performance measures are examined and compared to those of the conventional CNN model.Using a CNN-SVM hybrid model,the accuracy of gender classification based on fingerprints was 99.25%.展开更多
文摘The relationship between the shape and gender of a face, with particular application to automatic gender classification, has been the subject of significant research in recent years. Determining the gender of a face, especially when dealing with unseen examples, presents a major challenge. This is especially true for certain age groups, such as teenagers, due to their rapid development at this phase of life. This study proposes a new set of facial morphological descriptors,based on 3D geodesic path curvatures, and uses them for gender analysis. Their goal is to discern key facial areas related to gender, specifically suited to the task of gender classification. These new curvature-based features are extracted along the geodesic path between two biological landmarks located in key facial areas.Classification performance based on the new features is compared with that achieved using the Euclidean and geodesic distance measures traditionally used in gender analysis and classification. Five different experiments were conducted on a large teenage face database(4745 faces from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children) to investigate and justify the use of the proposed curvature features. Our experiments show that the combination of the new features with geodesic distances provides a classification accuracy of 89%. They also show that nose-related traits provide the most discriminative facial feature for gender classification, with the most discriminative features lying along the 3D face profile curve.
基金supported by the National HighTech Research and Development (863) Program of China (No. 2012AA011004)the National Science and Technology Support Program (No. 2013BAK02B04)the National Key Research and Development Plan (No. 2016YFB0801301)
文摘Gender classification is an important task in automated face analysis. Most existing approaches for gender classification use only raw/aligned face images after face detection as input. These methods exhibit fair classification ability under constrained conditions, in which face images are acquired under similar illumination with similar poses. The performances of these methods may deteriorate when face images show drastic variances in poses and occlusion as routinely encountered in real-world data. The reduction in the performances of current gender classification methods may be attributed to the sensitiveness of features to image translations. This work proposes to alleviate this sensitivity by introducing a majority voting procedure that involves multiple face patches.Specifically, this work utilizes a deep learning method based on multiple large patches. Several Convolutional Neural Networks(CNN) are trained on individual, predefined patches that reflect various image resolutions and partial cropping. The decisions of each CNN are aggregated through majority voting to obtain the final gender classification accurately. Extensive experiments are conducted on four gender classification databases, including Labeled Face in-the-Wild(LFW), CelebA, ColorFeret, and All-Age Faces database, a novel database collected by our group. Each individual patch is evaluated, and complementary patches are selected for voting. We show that the classification accuracy of our method is comparable with that of state-of-the-art systems. This characteristic validates the effectiveness of our proposed method.
文摘Gender classification is used in numerous applications such as biometrics,criminology,surveillance,HCI,and business profiling.Although biometric factors like gait,face,hand shape,and iris have been used to classify people into genders,the majority of research has focused on facial traits due to their more recognizable qualities.This research employs fingerprints to classify gender,with the intention of being relevant for future studies.Several methods for gender classification utilizing fingerprints have been presented in the literature,including ANN,KNN,Naive Bayes,the Gaussian mixture model,and deep learning-based classifiers.Although these classifiers have shown good classification accuracy,gender classification remains an unexplored field of study that necessitates the development of new approaches to enhance recognition accuracy,computation,and running time.In this paper,a CNN-SVM hybrid framework for gender classification from fingerprints is proposed,where preprocessing,feature extraction,and classification are the three main components.The main goal of this study is to use CNN to extract fingerprint information.These features are then sent to an SVM classifier to determine gender.The hybrid model’s performance measures are examined and compared to those of the conventional CNN model.Using a CNN-SVM hybrid model,the accuracy of gender classification based on fingerprints was 99.25%.
