Dealing with Inaccurate Face Detection for Automatic Gender Recognition with Partially Occluded Faces

  • Authors:
  • Yasmina Andreu;Pedro García-Sevilla;Ramón A. Mollineda

  • Affiliations:
  • Dpto. Lenguajes y Sistemas Informáticos, Universidad Jaume I, Castellón de la Plana, Spain;Dpto. Lenguajes y Sistemas Informáticos, Universidad Jaume I, Castellón de la Plana, Spain;Dpto. Lenguajes y Sistemas Informáticos, Universidad Jaume I, Castellón de la Plana, Spain

  • Venue:
  • CIARP '09 Proceedings of the 14th Iberoamerican Conference on Pattern Recognition: Progress in Pattern Recognition, Image Analysis, Computer Vision, and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Gender recognition problem has not been extensively studied in situations where the face cannot be accurately detected and it also can be partially occluded. In this contribution, a comparison of several characterisation methods of the face is presented and they are evaluated in four different experiments that simulate the previous scenario. Two of the characterisation techniques are based on histograms, LBP and local contrast values, and the other one is a new kind of features, called Ranking Labels, that provide spatial information. Experiments have proved Ranking Labels description is the most reliable in inaccurate situations.