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Gender Classification Based on Boosting Local Binary Pattern

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Advances in Neural Networks - ISNN 2006 (ISNN 2006)

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This paper presents a novel approach for gender classification by boosting local binary pattern-based classifiers. The face area is scanned with scalable small windows from which Local Binary Pattern (LBP) histograms are obtained to effectively express the local feature of a face image. The Chi square distance between corresponding Local Binary Pattern histograms of sample image and template is used to construct weak classifiers pool. Adaboost algorithm is applied to build the final strong classifiers by selecting and combining the most useful weak classifiers. In addition, two experiments are made for classifying gender based on local binary pattern. The male and female images set are collected from FERET databases. In the first experiment, the features are extracted by LBP histograms from fixed sub windows. The second experiment is tested on our boosting LBP based method. Finally, the results of two experiments show that the features extracted by LBP operator are discriminative for gender classification and our proposed approach achieves better performance of classification than several others methods.

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  1. Research Center of Learning Science, Southeast University, Nanjing, 210096, China

    Ning Sun & Li Zhao

  2. Department of Radio Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, 210096, China

    Ning Sun, Wenming Zheng, Cairong Zou & Li Zhao

  3. College of Electrical Engineering, Hohai University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, 210098, China

    Changyin Sun

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  1. Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong, China

    Jun Wang

  2. Computational Intelligence Laboratory, School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, 610054, Chengdu, P.R. China

    Zhang Yi

  3. Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Louisville, 40292, Louisville, KY, U.S.A

    Jacek M. Zurada

  4. Laboratory for Computational Biology, Shanghai Center for Systems Biomedicine, 800 Dong Chuan Rd., 200240, Shanghai, China

    Bao-Liang Lu

  5. School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Manchester, UK

    Hujun Yin

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Sun, N., Zheng, W., Sun, C., Zou, C., Zhao, L. (2006). Gender Classification Based on Boosting Local Binary Pattern. In: Wang, J., Yi, Z., Zurada, J.M., Lu, BL., Yin, H. (eds) Advances in Neural Networks - ISNN 2006. ISNN 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3972. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11760023_29

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