Gender Classification of Face Images: The Role of Global and Feature-Based Information

Most computational models of gender classification use global information (the full face image) giving equal weight to the whole face area irrespective of the importance of the internal features. Here we use a two-way representation of face images that includes both global and featural information. We use dimensionality reduction techniques and a support vector machine classifier and show that this method performs better than either global or feature based representations alone.

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