Learning gender with support faces

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7 August 2002

journal article
Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Vol. 24 (5) , 707-711
https://doi.org/10.1109/34.1000244

Abstract

Nonlinear support vector machines (SVMs) are investigated for appearance-based gender classification with low-resolution "thumbnail" faces processed from 1,755 images from the FERET (FacE REcognition Technology) face database. The performance of SVMs (3.4% error) is shown to be superior to traditional pattern classifiers (linear, quadratic, Fisher linear discriminant, nearest-neighbor) as well as more modern techniques, such as radial basis function (RBF) classifiers and large ensemble-RBF networks. Furthermore, the difference in classification performance with low-resolution "thumbnails" (21/spl times/12 pixels) and the corresponding higher-resolution images (84/spl times/48 pixels) was found to be only 1%, thus demonstrating robustness and stability with respect to scale and the degree of facial detail.

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