• DocumentCode
    3047379
  • Title

    Gender determining method using thermography

  • Author

    Nishino, Satoshi ; Sachiyo, Igarashi ; Matsuda, Atsushi

  • Author_Institution
    Oyama Nat. Coll. of Technol., Tochigi, Japan
  • Volume
    5
  • fYear
    2004
  • fDate
    24-27 Oct. 2004
  • Firstpage
    2961
  • Abstract
    Man and woman distinction is necessary to strengthen security and when various statistics on the visitor are taken in commercial facilities and so on. The conventional method of distinguishing a man from a woman is currently determined by using the person´s appearance, the person´s dress and in such cases, the way a person walks, the foot pressure, the hair type. But, these characteristics can be intentionally changed by human intervention or design. The proposed method gets the difference in the man´s and woman´s characteristics by taking images of the heat distribution of the person´s face by thermography. This is a man and woman distinction based on a new concept and idea which this is used for. Consequently, this can be used to distinguish a man from a woman even if a man turns himself into the woman intentionally (and vice versa), because this method involves biometrics authentication.
  • Keywords
    image processing; infrared imaging; security; statistics; biometrics authentication; foot pressure; gender determining method; hair type; heat distribution; human intervention; man distinction; thermography; woman distinction; Biochemistry; Biomedical imaging; Biometrics; Foot; Hair; Humans; Security; Statistics; Temperature distribution; Water heating;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Image Processing, 2004. ICIP '04. 2004 International Conference on
  • ISSN
    1522-4880
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-8554-3
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICIP.2004.1421734
  • Filename
    1421734