Gender classification using face images: a review
International Journal of Latest Trends in Engineering and Technology · 2016
In field of Image processing face is one of the most important biometric traits and is becoming more popular for the security purpose in now a days.During past several years classification of gender from facial images has gained enormous significance and has become a popular area of research.Many researches have done on the gender classification from several years.Still, this is a very important field of image processing because of its applications in many areas like monitoring, surveillance, commercial profiling and human-computer interaction.Security applications have high importance in this area.Gender classification using facial and racial features can be used as part of a face recognition process.This paper comparison of different gender classification techniques and use of different racial features such as eyes, nose, mouth etc. for gender classification.