Gender classification from face images using linear discriminant analysis

• Main Author: Soe Thida.
• Other Authors: Sung, Eric
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering::Electronic systems; DRNTU::Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering::Control and instrumentation
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/3589
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This study addresses the problem of gender classification using frontal images. We have developed a gender classification with performance superior to existing gender classifiers. The first step is that the face image is projected into a face space via Principal Component Analysis (PCA) to reduce di...