Face Gender Recognition in the Wild: An Extensive Performance Comparison of Deep-Learned, Hand-Crafted, and Fused Features with Deep and Traditional Models

Autor: Norah Alkharashi, Nourah Aloboud, Heba Kurdi, Mead Alrshoud, Alhanoof Althnian, Faten Alduwaish
Rok vydání: 2020
Předmět:
gender recognition
Computer science
SVM
Feature extraction
0211 other engineering and technologies
02 engineering and technology
lcsh:Technology
Convolutional neural network
lcsh:Chemistry
0202 electrical engineering
electronic engineering
information engineering

feature fusion
hand-crafted features
General Materials Science
lcsh:QH301-705.5
Instrumentation
Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes
021110 strategic
defence & security studies

lcsh:T
business.industry
Process Chemistry and Technology
Deep learning
General Engineering
deep learning
Pattern recognition
Learning models
deep-learned features
lcsh:QC1-999
Computer Science Applications
Support vector machine
ComputingMethodologies_PATTERNRECOGNITION
lcsh:Biology (General)
lcsh:QD1-999
lcsh:TA1-2040
Face (geometry)
Performance comparison
Related research
020201 artificial intelligence & image processing
Artificial intelligence
lcsh:Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
business
lcsh:Physics
CNN
Zdroj: Applied Sciences
Volume 11
Issue 1
Applied Sciences, Vol 11, Iss 89, p 89 (2021)
ISSN: 2076-3417
DOI: 10.3390/app11010089
Popis: Face gender recognition has many useful applications in human&ndash
robot interactions as it can improve the overall user experience. Support vector machines (SVM) and convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been used successfully in this domain. Researchers have shown an increased interest in comparing and combining different feature extraction paradigms, including deep-learned features, hand-crafted features, and the fusion of both features. Related research in face gender recognition has been mostly restricted to limited comparisons of the deep-learned and fused features with the CNN model or only deep-learned features with the CNN and SVM models. In this work, we perform a comprehensive comparative study to analyze the classification performance of two widely used learning models (i.e., CNN and SVM), when they are combined with seven features that include hand-crafted, deep-learned, and fused features. The experiments were performed using two challenging unconstrained datasets, namely, Adience and Labeled Faces in the Wild. Further, we used T-tests to assess the statistical significance of the differences in performances with respect to the accuracy, f-score, and area under the curve. Our results proved that SVMs showed best performance with fused features, whereas CNN showed the best performance with deep-learned features. CNN outperformed SVM significantly at p <
0.05.
Databáze: OpenAIRE