TY - GEN
T1 - Gender and ethnicity identification from silhouetted face profiles
AU - Tariq, Usman
AU - Hu, Yuxiao
AU - Huang, Thomas S.
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - This paper demonstrates, to our best knowledge, the first attempt on gender and ethnicity identification from silhouetted face profiles using a computer vision technique. The results achieved, after testing on 441 images, show that silhouetted face profiles have a lot of information, in particular, for ethnicity identification. Shape context based matching [1] was employed for classification. The test samples were multi-ethnic. Average accuracy for gender was 71.20% and for ethnicity 71.66%. However, the accuracy was significantly higher for some classes, such as 83.41% for females (in case of gender identification) and 80.37% for East and South East Asians (in case of ethnicity identification).
AB - This paper demonstrates, to our best knowledge, the first attempt on gender and ethnicity identification from silhouetted face profiles using a computer vision technique. The results achieved, after testing on 441 images, show that silhouetted face profiles have a lot of information, in particular, for ethnicity identification. Shape context based matching [1] was employed for classification. The test samples were multi-ethnic. Average accuracy for gender was 71.20% and for ethnicity 71.66%. However, the accuracy was significantly higher for some classes, such as 83.41% for females (in case of gender identification) and 80.37% for East and South East Asians (in case of ethnicity identification).
KW - Face recognition
KW - Image processing
KW - Pattern recognition
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U2 - 10.1109/ICIP.2009.5414117
DO - 10.1109/ICIP.2009.5414117
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:77951953985
SN - 9781424456543
T3 - Proceedings - International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP
SP - 2441
EP - 2444
BT - 2009 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2009 - Proceedings
PB - IEEE Computer Society
T2 - 2009 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2009
Y2 - 7 November 2009 through 10 November 2009
ER -