TY - GEN
T1 - Effects of the facial and racial features on gender classification
AU - Özbudak, Özlem
AU - Kirci, Mürvet
AU - Çakir, Yüksel
AU - Güneş, Ece Olcay
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - This paper presents an experimental study on examining the effects of facial and racial features on gender classification. In order to show which facial feature is the most influential for gender classification, parts of several face images, such as, forehead, eyebrows, eyes, nose, lip and chin were masked. For dimension reduction, Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and for determination of gender, Fisher Linear Discriminant (FLD) algorithms were applied to masked face images. Moreover, the effects of racial features on gender classification were studied. Experimental results indicated that the nose is the most influential part for gender classification. Furthermore the gender of the Asian people is more easily distinguished than that of the people of African origin.
AB - This paper presents an experimental study on examining the effects of facial and racial features on gender classification. In order to show which facial feature is the most influential for gender classification, parts of several face images, such as, forehead, eyebrows, eyes, nose, lip and chin were masked. For dimension reduction, Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and for determination of gender, Fisher Linear Discriminant (FLD) algorithms were applied to masked face images. Moreover, the effects of racial features on gender classification were studied. Experimental results indicated that the nose is the most influential part for gender classification. Furthermore the gender of the Asian people is more easily distinguished than that of the people of African origin.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=77954281788&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/MELCON.2010.5476346
DO - 10.1109/MELCON.2010.5476346
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:77954281788
SN - 9781424457953
T3 - Proceedings of the Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference - MELECON
SP - 26
EP - 29
BT - MELECON 2010 - The 15th IEEE Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference
T2 - 15th IEEE Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference, MELECON 2010
Y2 - 25 April 2010 through 28 April 2010
ER -