Predicting a person's gender based on the iris texture has been explored by several researchers. This paper considers several dimensions of experimental work on this problem, including person-disjoint train and test, and the effect of cosmetics on eyelash occlusion and imperfect segmentation. We also consider the use of multi-layer perceptron and convolutional neural networks as classifiers, comparing the use of data-driven and hand-crafted features. Our results suggest that the gender-from-iris problem is more difficult than has so far been appreciated. Estimating accuracy using a mean of N person-disjoint train and test partitions, and considering the effect of makeup - a combination of experimental conditions not present in any previous work - we find a much weaker ability to predict gender-from-iris texture than has been suggested in previous work.
Later, @cite_1 used a Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifier with features extracted using spot and line detectors and Law's texture measures. They used a dataset of 600 images and a cross-validation protocol with 2, 5 and 10 folds, with person-disjoint partitions. They considered both race-from-iris and gender-from-iris, and their classification accuracy on gender-from-iris ranged from @math 83 In the work of @cite_11 , using an SVM to classify Local Binary Pattern (LBP) features extracted from 3,000 iris images yielded an accuracy of @math 80 20 @math train test @math 72 28 @math 60
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We used both inner and outer face cues.External cues improve classification performance for gender recognition.FIS framework improves classification results when combined with SVM.Unconstrained databases provide better results than that of constrained databases.We obtained 93.35 accuracy on Groups LFW cross-database test. In this paper, we propose a novel gender recognition framework based on a fuzzy inference system (FIS). Our main objective is to study the gain brought by FIS in presence of various visual sensors (e.g., hair, mustache, inner face). We use inner and outer facial features to extract input variables. First, we define the fuzzy statements and then we generate a knowledge base composed of a set of rules over the linguistic variables including hair volume, mustache and a vision-sensor. Hair volume and mustache information are obtained from Part Labels subset of Labeled Faces in the Wild (LFW) database and vision-sensor is obtained from a pixel-intensity based SVM+RBF classifier trained on different databases including Feret, Groups and GENKI-4K. Cross-database test experiments on LFW database showed that the proposed method provides better accuracy than optimized SVM+RBF only classification. We also showed that FIS increases the inter-class variability by decreasing false negatives (FN) and false positives (FP) using expert knowledge. Our experimental results yield an average accuracy of 93.35 using Groups LFW test, while the SVM performance baseline yields 91.25 accuracy. This paper presents a thorough study of gender classification methodologies performing on neutral, expressive and partially occluded faces, when they are used in all possible arrangements of training and testing roles. A comprehensive comparison of two representation approaches (global and local), three types of features (grey levels, PCA and LBP), three classifiers (1-NN, PCA+LDA and SVM) and two performance measures (CCR and d') is provided over single- and cross-database experiments. Experiments revealed some interesting findings, which were supported by three non-parametric statistical tests: when training and test sets contain different types of faces, local models using the 1-NN rule outperform global approaches, even those using SVM classifiers; however, with the same type of faces, even if the acquisition conditions are diverse, the statistical tests could not reject the null hypothesis of equal performance of global SVMs and local 1-NNs. This paper is concerned in analyzing iris texture in order to determine “soft biometric”, attributes of a person, rather than identity. In particular, this paper is concerned with predicting the gender of a person based on analysis of features of the iris texture. Previous researchers have explored various approaches for predicting the gender of a person based on iris texture. We explore using different implementations of Local Binary Patterns from the iris image using the masked information. Uniform LBP with concatenated histograms significantly improves accuracy of gender prediction relative to using the whole iris image. Using a subject-disjoint test set, we are able to achieve over 91 correct gender prediction using the texture of the iris. To our knowledge, this is the highest accuracy yet achieved for predicting gender from iris texture. Iris pattern is commonly regarded as a kind of phenotypic feature without relation to genes. In our previous work, we argued that iris texture is race related, and its genetic information is illustrated in coarse scale texture features, rather than preserved in the minute local features of state-of-the-art iris recognition algorithms. In this paper, we propose a novel ethnic classification method based on learning appearance primitives of iris images. So we not only confirm that iris texture is race related, but also try to find out which kinds of iris visual primitives make iris images look different between Asian and non-Asian. In our scheme, we learned a small finite vocabulary of micro-structures, which are called iris-textons, to represent visual primitives of iris images. Then we use iris-texton histogram to capture the difference between iris textures. Finally iris images are grouped into two race categories, Asian and non-Asian, by support vector machine (SVM). Based on the proposed method, we get a higher correct classification rate (CCR) of 91.02 than our previous method on a database containing 2400 iris samples. We assess the applicability of several popular learning methods for the problem of recognizing generic visual categories with invariance to pose, lighting, and surrounding clutter. A large dataset comprising stereo image pairs of 50 uniform-colored toys under 36 azimuths, 9 elevations, and 6 lighting conditions was collected (for a total of 194,400 individual images). The objects were 10 instances of 5 generic categories: four-legged animals, human figures, airplanes, trucks, and cars. Five instances of each category were used for training, and the other five for testing. Low-resolution grayscale images of the objects with various amounts of variability and surrounding clutter were used for training and testing. Nearest neighbor methods, support vector machines, and convolutional networks, operating on raw pixels or on PCA-derived features were tested. Test error rates for unseen object instances placed on uniform backgrounds were around 13 for SVM and 7 for convolutional nets. On a segmentation recognition task with highly cluttered images, SVM proved impractical, while convolutional nets yielded 16 7 error. A real-time version of the system was implemented that can detect and classify objects in natural scenes at around 10 frames per second. Previous researchers have explored various approaches for predicting the gender of a person based on the features of the iris texture. This paper is the first to predict gender directly from the same binary iris code that could be used for recognition. We found that the information for gender prediction is distributed across the iris, rather than localized in particular concentric bands. We also found that using selected features representing a subset of the iris region achieves better accuracy than using features representing the whole iris region. We used the measures of mutual information to guide the selection of bits from the iris code to use as features in gender prediction. Using this approach, with a person-disjoint training and testing evaluation, we were able to achieve 89 correct gender prediction using the fusion of the best features of iris code from the left and right eyes. This paper describes an approach for the problem of face pose discrimination using support vector machines (SVM). Face pose discrimination means that one can label the face image as one of several known poses. Face images are drawn from the standard FERET database. The training set consists of 150 images equally distributed among frontal, approximately 33.75 spl deg rotated left and right poses, respectively, and the test set consists of 450 images again equally distributed among the three different types of poses. SVM achieved perfect accuracy-100 -discriminating between the three possible face poses on unseen test data, using either polynomials of degree 3 or radial basis functions (RBF) as kernel approximation functions. We present a fully automatic face recognition algorithm and demonstrate its performance on the FRGC v2.0 data. Our algorithm is multimodal (2D and 3D) and performs hybrid (feature based and holistic) matching in order to achieve efficiency and robustness to facial expressions. The pose of a 3D face along with its texture is automatically corrected using a novel approach based on a single automatically detected point and the Hotelling transform. A novel 3D spherical face representation (SFR) is used in conjunction with the scale-invariant feature transform (SIFT) descriptor to form a rejection classifier, which quickly eliminates a large number of candidate faces at an early stage for efficient recognition in case of large galleries. The remaining faces are then verified using a novel region-based matching approach, which is robust to facial expressions. This approach automatically segments the eyes- forehead and the nose regions, which are relatively less sensitive to expressions and matches them separately using a modified iterative closest point (ICP) algorithm. The results of all the matching engines are fused at the metric level to achieve higher accuracy. We use the FRGC benchmark to compare our results to other algorithms that used the same database. Our multimodal hybrid algorithm performed better than others by achieving 99.74 percent and 98.31 percent verification rates at a 0.001 false acceptance rate (FAR) and identification rates of 99.02 percent and 95.37 percent for probes with a neutral and a nonneutral expression, respectively. Iris pattern is commonly regarded as a kind of phenotypic feature without relation to the genes. In this paper, we propose a novel ethnic classification method based on the global texture information of iris images. So we would argue that iris texture is race related, and its genetic information is illustrated in coarse scale texture features, rather than preserved in the minute local features of state-of-the-art iris recognition algorithms. In our scheme, a bank of multichannel 2D Gabor filters is used to capture the global texture information and AdaBoost is used to learn a discriminant classification principle from the pool of the candidate feature set. Finally iris images are grouped into two race categories, Asian and non-Asian. Based on the proposed method, we get an encouraging correct classification rate (CCR) of 85.95 on a mixed database containing 3982 iris samples in our experiments. Straightforward classification using kernelized SVMs requires evaluating the kernel for a test vector and each of the support vectors. For a class of kernels we show that one can do this much more efficiently. In particular we show that one can build histogram intersection kernel SVMs (IKSVMs) with runtime complexity of the classifier logarithmic in the number of support vectors as opposed to linear for the standard approach. We further show that by precomputing auxiliary tables we can construct an approximate classifier with constant runtime and space requirements, independent of the number of support vectors, with negligible loss in classification accuracy on various tasks. This approximation also applies to 1 - chi2 and other kernels of similar form. We also introduce novel features based on a multi-level histograms of oriented edge energy and present experiments on various detection datasets. On the INRIA pedestrian dataset an approximate IKSVM classifier based on these features has the current best performance, with a miss rate 13 lower at 10-6 False Positive Per Window than the linear SVM detector of Dalal & Triggs. On the Daimler Chrysler pedestrian dataset IKSVM gives comparable accuracy to the best results (based on quadratic SVM), while being 15times faster. In these experiments our approximate IKSVM is up to 2000times faster than a standard implementation and requires 200times less memory. Finally we show that a 50times speedup is possible using approximate IKSVM based on spatial pyramid features on the Caltech 101 dataset with negligible loss of accuracy. Gender classification from multispectral periocular and iris images is a new topic on soft-biometric research. The feature extracted from RGB images and Near Infrared Images shows complementary information independent of the spectrum of the images. This paper shows that we canfusion these information improving the accuracy of gender classification. Most gender classification methods reported in the literature has used images from face databases and all the features for classification purposes. Experimental results suggest: (a) Features extracted in different scales can perform better than using only one feature in a single scale; (b) The periocular images performed better than iris images on VIS and NIR; c) The fusion of features on different spectral images NIR and VIS allows improve the accuracy; (c) The feature selection applied to NIR and VIS allows select relevant features and d) Our accuracy 90 is competitive with the state of the art. This paper proposes a robust and efficient eye state detection method based on an improved algorithm called LBP+SVM mode. LBP (local binary pattern) methodology is first used to select the two groups of candidates from a whole face image. Then corresponding SVMs (supporting vector machine) are employed to verify the real eye and its state. The LBP methodology makes it robust against rotation, illumination and occlusion to find the candidates, and the SVM helps to make the final verification correct. Pose variation remains to be a major challenge for real-world face recognition. We approach this problem through a probabilistic elastic matching method. We take a part based representation by extracting local features (e.g., LBP or SIFT) from densely sampled multi-scale image patches. By augmenting each feature with its location, a Gaussian mixture model (GMM) is trained to capture the spatial-appearance distribution of all face images in the training corpus. Each mixture component of the GMM is confined to be a spherical Gaussian to balance the influence of the appearance and the location terms. Each Gaussian component builds correspondence of a pair of features to be matched between two faces face tracks. For face verification, we train an SVM on the vector concatenating the difference vectors of all the feature pairs to decide if a pair of faces face tracks is matched or not. We further propose a joint Bayesian adaptation algorithm to adapt the universally trained GMM to better model the pose variations between the target pair of faces face tracks, which consistently improves face verification accuracy. Our experiments show that our method outperforms the state-of-the-art in the most restricted protocol on Labeled Face in the Wild (LFW) and the YouTube video face database by a significant margin. We automatically assemble a big dataset to train a face gender classifier.This is formed by 4 million images and over 60,000 features.The resulting system significantly outperforms the previous state of the art without human annotation.This study lends support to the "unreasonable effectiveness of data" conjecture.This study is relevant to computer vision (LBP features, face classification), machine learning (large scale linear classifiers), and big data.This study can serve as a template for other "web scale" learning tasks. The application of learning algorithms to big datasets has been identified for a long time as an effective way to attack important tasks in pattern recognition, but the generation of large annotated datasets has a significant cost. We present a simple and effective method to generate a classifier of face images, by training a linear classification algorithm on a massive dataset entirely assembled and labelled by automated means. In doing so, we perform the largest experiment on face gender recognition so far published, reporting the highest performance yet. Four million images and more than 60,000 features are used to train online classifiers. By using an ensemble of linear classifiers, we achieve an accuracy of 96.86 on the most challenging public database, labelled faces in the wild (LFW), 2.05 higher than the previous best result on the same dataset (Shan, 2012). This result is relevant both for the machine learning community, addressing the role of large datasets, and the computer vision community, providing a way to make high quality face gender classifiers. Furthermore, we propose a general way to generate and exploit massive data without human annotation. Finally, we demonstrate a simple and effective adaptation of the Pegasos that makes it more robust. Prediction of gender characteristics from iris images has been investigated and some successful results have been reported in the literature, but without considering performance for different iris features and classifiers. This paper investigates for the first time an approach to gender prediction from iris images using different types of features (including a small number of very simple geometric features, texture features and a combination of geometric and texture features) and a more versatile and intelligent classifier structure. Our proposed approaches can achieve gender prediction accuracies of up to 90 in the BioSecure Database. In this paper, we report our extension of the use of feature selection based on mutual information and feature fusion to improve gender classification of face images. We compare the results of fusing three groups of features, three spatial scales, and four different mutual information measures to select features. We also showed improved results by fusion of LBP features with different radii and spatial scales, and the selection of features using mutual information. As measures of mutual information we use minimum redundancy and maximal relevance (mRMR), normalized mutual information feature selection (NMIFS), conditional mutual information feature selection (CMIFS), and conditional mutual information maximization (CMIM). We tested the results on four databases: FERET and UND, under controlled conditions, the LFW database under unconstrained scenarios, and AR for occlusions. It is shown that selection of features together with fusion of LBP features significantly improved gender classification accuracy compared to previously published results. We also show a significant reduction in processing time because of the feature selection, which makes real-time applications of gender classification feasible. In this paper we focus on building robust image representations for gender classification from full human bodies. We first investigate a number of state-of-the-art image representations with regard to their suitability for gender profiling from static body images. Features include Histogram of Gradients (HOG), spatial pyramid HOG and spatial pyramid bag of words etc. These representations are learnt and combined based on a kernel support vector machine (SVM) classifier. We compare a number of different SVM kernels for this task but conclude that the simple linear kernel appears to give the best overall performance. Our study shows that individual adoption of these representations for gender classification is not as promising as might be expected, given their good performance in the tasks of pedestrian detection on INRIA datasets, and object categorisation on Caltech 101 and Caltech 256 datasets. Our best results, 80 classification accuracy, were achieved from a combination of spatial shape information, captured by HOG, and colour information captured by HSV histogram based features. Additionally, to the best of our knowledge, currently there is no publicly available dataset for full body gender recognition. Hence, we further introduce a novel body gender dataset covering a large diversity of human body appearance. Gender is an important demographic attribute. Automated gender estimation has drawn significant interest in numerous applications such as surveillance, human-computer interaction, anonymous customized advertisement systems, image retrieval system as well as in fusion with primary biometric trait to improve the matching accuracy of a biometric system. Although studies have been proposed for gender estimation from face, fingerprint and iris images, none of the existing studies explore gender prediction from ocular images captured in mobile environment, which is the aim of this paper. We evaluate several textural descriptors in combination with Support Vector Machines (SVM) and Multi-layer Perceptron (MLP) on a large scale publicly available VISOB dataset captured using mobile devices. The best accuracy of 91.6 is obtained using Histogram of Gradient (HOG) descriptor in combination with MLP classifier. The new parallel multiclass stochastic gradient descent algorithms aim at classifying million images with very-high-dimensional signatures into thousands of classes. We extend the stochastic gradient descent (SGD) for support vector machines (SVM-SGD) in several ways to develop the new multiclass SVM-SGD for efficiently classifying large image datasets into many classes. We propose (1) a balanced training algorithm for learning binary SVM-SGD classifiers, and (2) a parallel training process of classifiers with several multi-core computers grid. The evaluation on 1000 classes of ImageNet, ILSVRC 2010 shows that our algorithm is 270 times faster than the state-of-the-art linear classifier LIBLINEAR. We present a new method to classify human activities by leveraging on the cues available from depth images alone. Towards this end, we propose a descriptor which couples depth and spatial information of the segmented body to describe a human pose. Unique poses (i.e. codewords) are then identified by a spatial-based clustering step. Given a video sequence of depth images, we segment humans from the depth images and represent these segmented bodies as a sequence of codewords. We exploit unique poses of an activity and the temporal ordering of these poses to learn subsequences of codewords which are strongly discriminative for the activity. Each discriminative subsequence acts as a classifier and we learn a boosted ensemble of discriminative subsequences to assign a confidence score for the activity label of the test sequence. Unlike existing methods which demand accurate tracking of 3D joint locations or couple depth with color image information as recognition cues, our method requires only the segmentation masks from depth images to recognize an activity. Experimental results on the publicly available Human Activity Dataset (which comprises 12 challenging activities) demonstrate the validity of our method, where we attain a precision recall of 78.1 75.4 when the person was not seen before in the training set, and 94.6 93.1 when the person was seen before.