Title :
An analysis of the gender and age differentiation using facial parts
Author :
Kawano, Takuya ; Kato, Kunihito ; Yamamoto, Kazuhiko
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Inf. Sci., Gifu Univ., Japan
Abstract :
The main purpose of our research is to evaluate which subject´s facial parts are most effective at making the difference between men and women. We prepared the four directional feature fields on multiple facial parts images, such as face, jaw, lip, nose, eyes, and R eye. Then, we recognized these images by using the linear discriminate analysis. Furthermore, we analyzed the feature space by using within-class variance between-class variance ratio. After experimenting on a large number of subjects, we conclude that face and jaw make good feature spaces. Moreover, we discovered that recognition rate changes with ages. Accordingly, a possibility that each man and woman had the age, which is easy to distinguish gender, was suggested.
Keywords :
face recognition; age differentiation; facial parts; four directional features field; gender differentiation; linear discriminant analysis; recognition rate; Analysis of variance; Eyes; Face detection; Gabor filters; Image analysis; Image edge detection; Image recognition; Linear discriminant analysis; Nose; Principal component analysis; Age; Facial parts; Four directional features field; Gender classification; Linear discriminant analysis;
Conference_Titel :
Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 2005 IEEE International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9298-1
DOI :
10.1109/ICSMC.2005.1571678