1995，-Zurich，-pages-92-97-Face-Recognition-and-Gender-Determination.pdf

Proceedings of the Intern Workshop on Automatic Face and GestureRecognition Zurich pages Face Recognition and Gender Determination Laurenz Wiskott y JeanMarc Fellous z Norb ert Kruger y Christoph von der Malsburg yz yRuhr Universitat Bo chum Institut f ur Neuroinformatik D Bo chum Germany WWW httpwwwneuroinformatikruhrunib o chumde Email laurenzneuroinformatikruhrunib o chumde zUniversity of Southern California Dept of Computer Science and Section for Neurobiology Los Angeles CA USA Abstract robust and ecient system achieving face recog The system presented here is a sp ecialized ver nition will require a hybrid approach sion of a general ob ject recognition system Im The work presented b elow uses lab eled graphs ages of faces are represented as graphs lab eled of twodimensional views as a hybrid representa with top ographical information and lo cal tem tion of faces The no des are lab eled with jets a plates Dierent p oses are represented by dier sp ecial class of lo cal templates built on the basis ent graphs New graphs of faces are generated by of wavelet transforms The edges are lab eled with an elastic graph matching pro cedure comparing distance vectors similar to the geometric features the new face with a set of precomputed graphs in More abstract features like gender are de the general face knowledge The nal phase termined from the lo cal templates of the matching pro cess can b