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Extracting gender discriminating features from facial needle-maps

  • University of York

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Abstract

In this paper, we show how to extract gender discriminating features from 2.5D facial needle-maps. The standard eigenspace analysis method for non-Euclidean data is principal geodesic analysis (PGA). Based on PGA, we propose a novel supervised weighted PGA method which incorporates local weights into standard PGA to improve gender discriminating capability of the extracted features. The weight map is iteratively optimized from the labeled data, which is different from other gender relevant weights used in the literature [1]. Experimental results illustrate the effectiveness of this method and its successful application to gender classification.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2009 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2009 - Proceedings
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages2449-2452
Number of pages4
ISBN (Print)9781424456543
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2009
Event2009 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2009 - Cairo, Egypt
Duration: 7 Nov 200910 Nov 2009

Publication series

NameProceedings - International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP
ISSN (Print)1522-4880

Conference

Conference2009 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2009
Country/TerritoryEgypt
CityCairo
Period7/11/0910/11/09

Keywords

  • 3D image processing
  • Feature extraction
  • Gender classification

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Signal Processing

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