Recognizing gender from images with facial makeup

Annie Micheal, Geetha Palanisamy

Abstract


Recognizing the sex of an individual is a difficult task due to pose variation, occlusion, illumination effect, facial expression, plastic surgery, and makeup. In this manuscript, a novel approach for gender recognition with facial makeup is proposed. A novel Log-Gabor COSFIRE (LG-COSFIRE) filter is a shape-selective filter that is trained with prototype patterns of interest. The geometrical structure of the faces is acquired using the dual-tree complex wavelet transform (DT-CWT). Dense SIFT descriptor extracts the shape attributes of an image by building local histograms of gradient orientation. Finally, least square support vector machine (LS-SVM) is utilized to recognize the gender of an individual. The experiment was performed on self-built facial makeup for male and female (FMMF) database and achieves 89.7% accuracy.


Keywords


Dense SIFT; DT-CWT; LS-SVM; Log-Gabor COSFIRE

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DOI: http://doi.org/10.11591/ijeecs.v35.i2.pp1201-1209

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Indonesian Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (IJEECS)
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