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In this paper illumination invariant, pose and facial expression tolerant gender classification method is proposed. A recently introduced feature extraction method, namely Gradientfaces, is utilized together with Support Vector Machine (SVM) as a classifier. Image regions obtained from cascaded Adaboost based face detector is used at the feature extraction step and faster classification is achieved by using only 20-by-20 pixel region during feature extraction. For performance evaluation, two well-known face databases, FERET and Yale B are tested and the algorithm is compared against a pixelbased algorithm on these datasets. The results indicate that Gradientfaces significantly outperform the pixel-based methods under severe illumination, pose and facial expression variances.
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Loğoğlu, K.B., Saracoğlu, A., Esen, E., Alatan, A.A. (2011). Gender Classification via Gradientfaces. In: Gelenbe, E., Lent, R., Sakellari, G., Sacan, A., Toroslu, H., Yazici, A. (eds) Computer and Information Sciences. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 62. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9794-1_48
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