Authors:
Duan-Yu Chen
and
Kuan-Yi Lin
Affiliation:
Yuan-Ze University, Taiwan
Keyword(s):
Gender recognition, Uncontrolled environment, Real-life images.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Artificial Intelligence
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Biomedical Engineering
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Biomedical Signal Processing
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Computer Vision, Visualization and Computer Graphics
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Data Manipulation
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Health Engineering and Technology Applications
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Human-Computer Interaction
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Image Formation and Preprocessing
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Implementation of Image and Video Processing Systems
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Methodologies and Methods
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Neurocomputing
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Neurotechnology, Electronics and Informatics
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Pattern Recognition
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Physiological Computing Systems
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Sensor Networks
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Soft Computing
Abstract:
Gender recognition is a challenging task in real life images and surveillance videos due to their relatively low-resolution, under uncontrolled environment and variant viewing angles of human subject. Therefore, in this paper, a system of real-time gender recognition for real life images is proposed. The contribution of this work is fourfold. A skin-color filter is first developed to filter out non-face noises. In order to make the system robust, a mechanism of decision making based on the combination of surrounding face detection, context-regions enhancement and confidence-based weighting assignment is designed. Experimental results obtained by using extensive dataset show that our system is effective and efficient in recognizing genders for uncontrolled environment of real life images.