Gender recognition via locality preserving tensor analysis on face images

  • Authors:
  • Huining Qiu;Wan-quan Liu;Jian-Huang Lai

  • Affiliations:
  • Dept of Computing, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, WA, Australia;Dept of Computing, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, WA, Australia;Dept of Applied Mathematics, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

  • Venue:
  • ACCV'09 Proceedings of the 9th Asian conference on Computer Vision - Volume Part III
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

In this paper we propose a new tensor based analysis algorithm for face gender recognition, in which we consider the different feature structures of male/female images respectively Given a gender labeled face dataset, we aim to obtain their meaningful low-dimensional data representation which preserves their intrinsic male/female structures, and this is achieved by combining tensor analysis with a local geometric preserving constraint on the tensor decomposition In the proposed approach, a similarity graph is built to represent images of the same gender and separate those of different genders Technically, a 5-mode (w.r.t gender, pose, illumination, expression, pixels) tensor decomposition is used to analyze the packed image matrix, which is constrained on the proposed graph and this graph can preserve as much as possible on the information of gender in the decomposed component data The objective of gender recognition is formulated as an optimization problem and then solved by an alternating algorithm Finally, experiments are implemented on several face databases and it is proved that the proposed approach can enhance gender discriminant capability significantly compared to the tensor approach, while has already achieved a comparable recognition performance as a state-of-art algorithm.