Gender Classification Using Local Binary Pattern and Particle Swarm Optimization

Gender classification is the phenomena in which a face image is analyzed and recognized by a computer. Feature extraction is the key step of gender classification. In this paper, we present a method which efficiently classifies gender by extracting the key optimized features. We have used Local Binary Pattern (LBP) to extract facial features. As LBP features contain many redundant features, Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) was applied to get optimized features. We performed different numbers of experiments on FERET face database and report 95.5 % accuracy.

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