【作者】 许孜奕；

【导师】 施鹏飞；

【作者基本信息】 上海交通大学 ， 模式识别与智能系统， 2009， 硕士

【摘要】 人脸是重要的生物特征之一,人脸图像上蕴含了大量的信息,例如性别、年龄、人种、身份等。人脸的性别识别就是试图赋予计算机根据输入的人脸图像判断其性别的能力。本文基于人脸正面图像进行性别分类。一般而言,人脸性别识别系统分为图像预处理,人脸特征提取和分类器识别三部分。本文针对这三个部分展开研究,并比较了几种不同方案的识别性能。通过对性别识别的重要理论的研究,为了提高性别识别率,本文提出了采用AdaBoost算法提取整体特征,主动表观模型提取局部特征,组合局部与整体特征后使用支持向量机(SVM)进行分类的方法。本文在一个由AR、FERET、CAS-PEAL-R1、网上收集和实验室自行采集所共同组成的,包含21,300余张人脸的数据库上,进行了大量有意义的实验。实验结果显示,融合了整体特征和局部特征后,识别率比基于(单独)整体特征的、基于(单独)局部特征的有很大的提高,达到了90%以上。本文还通过精心设计的对比实验对预处理过程中人脸有效区域的截取和AdaBoost的结构选择等方面给出了合理的建议。更多还原

【Abstract】 Face is an important biological feature. Face images contain a great deal of information, such as gender, age, race, ID, etc. Gender recognition is an attempt to give the computers the ability to discriminate the gender information from a face image.Generally speaking, one gender classification system consists of three modules, face image preprocessing, facial feature extraction and classifier. This paper researches on the three modules and compares some different methods.In this paper, a novel gender classification method based on frontal face images is presented. In this work, the global features are extracted using AdaBoost algorithm. Active Appearance Model (AAM) locates 83 landmarks, from which the local features are characterized. After the fusion of the local and global features, the mixed features are used to train support vector machine (SVM) classifiers. This method is evaluated by the recognition rates over a mixed face database containing over 21,300 images from 4 sources (AR, FERET, CAS-PEAL-R1, WWW and a database collected by the lab). Experimental results show that the hybrid method outperforms the unmixed appearance- or geometry-feature based methods and achieve a classification rate over 90%. Reasonable suggestions on the extraction of facial region and the selection of AdaBoost structure is given based on carefully designed experiments.更多还原