Integrating Independent Components and Support Vector Machines for Gender Classification

Authors:
Amit Jain;Jeffrey Huang
Affiliations:
Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis, IN;Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis, IN
Venue:
ICPR '04 Proceedings of the Pattern Recognition, 17th International Conference on (ICPR'04) Volume 3 - Volume 03
Year:
2004

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Abstract

Computer vision and pattern recognition systems play an important role in our lives by means of automated face detection, face and gesture recognition, and estimation of gender and age. We have developed a gender classifier with performance superior to existing gender classifiers. This paper addresses the problem of gender classification using frontal facial images. The testbed consists of 500 images (250 females and 250 males) randomly withdrawn from the FERET facial database. Independent Component Analysis (ICA) is used to represent each image as a feature vector in a low dimensional subspace. Different classifiers are studied in this lower dimensional subspace. Our experimental results show the best accuracy of 96% in gender classification by combining ICA and Support Vector Machines (SVMs).