Ethnicity estimation with facial images

  • Authors:
  • Satoshi Hosoi;Erina Takikawa;Masato Kawade

  • Affiliations:
  • Vision Sensing Technologies, Sensing Technology Laboratory, OMRON Corporation, Kyoto, Japan;Vision Sensing Technologies, Sensing Technology Laboratory, OMRON Corporation, Kyoto, Japan;Vision Sensing Technologies, Sensing Technology Laboratory, OMRON Corporation, Kyoto, Japan

  • Venue:
  • FGR' 04 Proceedings of the Sixth IEEE international conference on Automatic face and gesture recognition
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

We have advanced efforts to develop vision based human understanding technologies for realizing human-friendly machine interfaces. Visual information, such as gender, age ethnicity, and facial expression play an important role in face-to-face communication. This paper addresses a novel approach for ethnicity classification with facial images. In this approach, Gabor Wavelets Transformation and retina sampling are combined to extract key facial features, and support vector machines are used for ethnicity classification. Our system, based on this approach, achieved approximately 94% for ethnicity estimation under various lighting conditions.