Facial features and axis of symmetry extracted using natural orientation information

Extraction of male and female facial fea

Extraction of male and female facial features using neural networks

✍ Tsuneo Kanno; Hiroshi Nagahashi; Takeshi Agui 📂 Article 📅 2000 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 637 KB

Features of male/female facial images are examined by analyzing the distribution of connection weights of the hidden-layer unit and the input-layer unit of a neural network that responds to their distinction. Twenty-five graylevel (black-and-white) facial images were used for each of the male and fe