Learned vs. hand-crafted features for pedestrian gender recognition

Antipov, Grigory; Berrani, Sid-Ahmed; Ruchaud, Natacha; Dugelay, Jean-Luc
MM 2015, 23rd ACM Multimedia Conference, 26-30 October 2015, Brisbane, Australia

This paper addresses the problem of image features selection for pedestrian gender recognition. Hand-crafted features (such as HOG) are compared with learned features
which are obtained by training convolutional neural networks. The comparison is performed on the recently created collection of versatile pedestrian datasets which allows
us to evaluate the impact of dataset properties on the performance of features. The study shows that hand-crafted and learned features perform equally well on small-sized homogeneous datasets. However, learned features significantly outperform hand-crafted ones in the case of heterogeneous and unfamiliar (unseen) datasets. Our best model which is based on learned features obtains 79% average recognition rate on completely unseen datasets. We also show that a relatively small convolutional neural network is able to produce competitive features even with little training data.

DOI
HAL
Type:
Conférence
City:
Brisbane
Date:
2015-10-26
Department:
Sécurité numérique
Eurecom Ref:
4651
Copyright:
© ACM, 2015. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of ACM for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in MM 2015, 23rd ACM Multimedia Conference, 26-30 October 2015, Brisbane, Australia
http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2733373.2806332

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