Estimation of Fractal Dimension and Segmentation of Body Regions for Deep Learning-Based Gender Recognition

There are few studies utilizing only IR cameras for long-distance gender recognition, and they have shown low recognition performance due to their lack of color and texture information in IR images with a complex background. Therefore, a rough body segmentation-based gender recognition network (RBSG...

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Main Authors: Dong Chan Lee, Min Su Jeong, Seong In Jeong, Seung Yong Jung, Kang Ryoung Park
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Min Su Jeong
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Kang Ryoung Park
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description There are few studies utilizing only IR cameras for long-distance gender recognition, and they have shown low recognition performance due to their lack of color and texture information in IR images with a complex background. Therefore, a rough body segmentation-based gender recognition network (RBSG-Net) is proposed, with enhanced gender recognition performance achieved by emphasizing the silhouette of a person through a body segmentation network. Anthropometric loss for the segmentation network and an adaptive body attention module are also proposed, which effectively integrate the segmentation and classification networks. To enhance the analytic capabilities of the proposed framework, fractal dimension estimation was introduced into the system to gain insights into the complexity and irregularity of the body region, thereby predicting the accuracy of body segmentation. For experiments, near-infrared images from the Sun Yat-sen University multiple modality re-identification version 1 (SYSU-MM01) dataset and thermal images from the Dongguk body-based gender version 2 (DBGender-DB2) database were used. The equal error rates of gender recognition by the proposed model were 4.320% and 8.303% for these two databases, respectively, surpassing state-of-the-art methods.
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spelling doaj-art-a136a1e4a9bc485f91b84f59742e17d02025-08-20T02:11:04ZengMDPI AGFractal and Fractional2504-31102024-09-0181055110.3390/fractalfract8100551Estimation of Fractal Dimension and Segmentation of Body Regions for Deep Learning-Based Gender RecognitionDong Chan Lee0Min Su Jeong1Seong In Jeong2Seung Yong Jung3Kang Ryoung Park4Division of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Dongguk University, 30 Pildong-ro 1-gil, Jung-gu, Seoul 04620, Republic of KoreaDivision of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Dongguk University, 30 Pildong-ro 1-gil, Jung-gu, Seoul 04620, Republic of KoreaDivision of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Dongguk University, 30 Pildong-ro 1-gil, Jung-gu, Seoul 04620, Republic of KoreaDivision of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Dongguk University, 30 Pildong-ro 1-gil, Jung-gu, Seoul 04620, Republic of KoreaDivision of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Dongguk University, 30 Pildong-ro 1-gil, Jung-gu, Seoul 04620, Republic of KoreaThere are few studies utilizing only IR cameras for long-distance gender recognition, and they have shown low recognition performance due to their lack of color and texture information in IR images with a complex background. Therefore, a rough body segmentation-based gender recognition network (RBSG-Net) is proposed, with enhanced gender recognition performance achieved by emphasizing the silhouette of a person through a body segmentation network. Anthropometric loss for the segmentation network and an adaptive body attention module are also proposed, which effectively integrate the segmentation and classification networks. To enhance the analytic capabilities of the proposed framework, fractal dimension estimation was introduced into the system to gain insights into the complexity and irregularity of the body region, thereby predicting the accuracy of body segmentation. For experiments, near-infrared images from the Sun Yat-sen University multiple modality re-identification version 1 (SYSU-MM01) dataset and thermal images from the Dongguk body-based gender version 2 (DBGender-DB2) database were used. The equal error rates of gender recognition by the proposed model were 4.320% and 8.303% for these two databases, respectively, surpassing state-of-the-art methods.https://www.mdpi.com/2504-3110/8/10/551gender recognitioninfrared light imagesfractal dimensionbody segmentationsurveillance system
spellingShingle Dong Chan Lee
Min Su Jeong
Seong In Jeong
Seung Yong Jung
Kang Ryoung Park
Estimation of Fractal Dimension and Segmentation of Body Regions for Deep Learning-Based Gender Recognition
Fractal and Fractional
gender recognition
infrared light images
fractal dimension
body segmentation
surveillance system
title Estimation of Fractal Dimension and Segmentation of Body Regions for Deep Learning-Based Gender Recognition
title_full Estimation of Fractal Dimension and Segmentation of Body Regions for Deep Learning-Based Gender Recognition
title_fullStr Estimation of Fractal Dimension and Segmentation of Body Regions for Deep Learning-Based Gender Recognition
title_full_unstemmed Estimation of Fractal Dimension and Segmentation of Body Regions for Deep Learning-Based Gender Recognition
title_short Estimation of Fractal Dimension and Segmentation of Body Regions for Deep Learning-Based Gender Recognition
title_sort estimation of fractal dimension and segmentation of body regions for deep learning based gender recognition
topic gender recognition
infrared light images
fractal dimension
body segmentation
surveillance system
url https://www.mdpi.com/2504-3110/8/10/551
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