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
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