Journal
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON PATTERN ANALYSIS AND MACHINE INTELLIGENCE
Volume 33, Issue 4, Pages 858-864Publisher
IEEE COMPUTER SOC
DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2010.208
Keywords
Computer vision; gender classification; Fisher linear discriminant analysis
Funding
- Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion [TIN2008-06815-C02-02, TIN2010-19654]
- Consolider Ingenio program [CSD2007-00018]
- US Department of Defense (DOD) Counterdrug Technology Development Program Office
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Emerging applications of computer vision and pattern recognition in mobile devices and networked computing require the development of resource-limited algorithms. Linear classification techniques have an important role to play in this context, given their simplicity and low computational requirements. The paper reviews the state-of-the-art in gender classification, giving special attention to linear techniques and their relations. It discusses why linear techniques are not achieving competitive results and shows how to obtain state-of-the-art performances. Our work confirms previous results reporting very close classification accuracies for Support Vector Machines (SVMs) and boosting algorithms on single-database experiments. We have proven that Linear Discriminant Analysis on a linearly selected set of features also achieves similar accuracies. We perform cross-database experiments and prove that single database experiments were optimistically biased. If enough training data and computational resources are available, SVM's gender classifiers are superior to the rest. When computational resources are scarce but there is enough data, boosting or linear approaches are adequate. Finally, if training data and computational resources are very scarce, then the linear approach is the best choice.
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