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The design of image-based soft-biometrics systems highly depends on the human factor analysis. How well can human do in gender/ethnicity recognition by looking at faces in different representations? How does human recognize gender/ethnicity? What factors affect the accuracy of gender/ethnicity recognition? The answers of these questions may inspire our design of computer-based automatic gender/ethnicity recognition algorithms. In this work, several subjective experiments are conducted to test the capability of human in gender/ethnicity recognition on different face representations, including 1D face silhouette, 2D face images and 3D face models. Our experimental results provide baselines and interesting inspirations for designing computer-based face gender/ethnicity recognition algorithms.
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Hu, Y., Fu, Y., Tariq, U., Huang, T.S. (2010). Subjective Experiments on Gender and Ethnicity Recognition from Different Face Representations. In: Boll, S., Tian, Q., Zhang, L., Zhang, Z., Chen, YP.P. (eds) Advances in Multimedia Modeling. MMM 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5916. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11301-7_10
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