Most of the existing gender classification approaches are based on face appearance only. In this paper, we present a gender classification system that integrates face and hair features. Instead of using the whole face we extract features from eyes, nose and mouth regions with Maximum Margin Criterion (MMC), and the hair feature is represented by a fragment-based encoding. We use Support Vector Machines with probabilistic output (SVM-PO) as individual classifiers. Fuzzy integration based classifier combination mechanism is used to fusing the four different classifiers on eyes, nose, mouth and hair respectively. The experimental results show that the MMC outperforms Principal Component Analysis and Fisher Discriminant Analysis and incorporating hair feature improves gender classification performance. © 2009 Springer Berlin Heidelberg.
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Lian, X. C., & Lu, B. L. (2009). Gender classification by combining facial and hair information. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 5507 LNCS, pp. 647–654). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03040-6_79
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