Gender classification based on multi-scale and run-length features

Human faces can convey substantial information about a person, such as his or her age, race, identity, gender, and emotions. Such facial information can be obtained through techniques like human facial tracking and detection, facial recognition, gender classification, emotion recognition, as well as age estimation. Of these, gender classification is particularly important due to its diverse applications in the fields such as video surveillance and commercial advertising. In this thesis, we propose a method of gender classification based on run-length histograms. The proposed method uses a run-length histogram to record the position information of pixels, thereby efficiently improves the recognition rate and makes the technique suitable for a big-data multimedia database. The experimental results show that the proposed method can achieve better accuracy than a multi-scale based method can.