GENDER RECOGNITION ON RGB-D IMAGE

In this paper, we propose a deep-learning approach for human gender classification on RGB-D images. Unlike most of the existing methods, which use hand-crafted features from the human face, we exploit local information from the head and global information from the whole body to classify people's gender. A head detector is fine-tuned on YOLO to detect the head regions on the images automatically. Two gender classifiers are trained using head images and whole-body images separately. The final prediction is made by fusing the two classifiers' results. The presented method outperforms the state-of-art with an improvement in the accuracy of 2.6%, 7.6%, and 8.4% on three different test data of a challenging gender dataset which includes human standing, walking, and interacting scenarios.