Hand-based gender classification
First Claim
1. A method of classifying the gender of a hand having a plurality of hand parts, the method comprising:
- for each of at least two digitally-imaged hand parts, where each of the at least two digitally-imaged hand part corresponds to one of the plurality of hand parts, computing a set of feature parameters representing a geometry of the digitally-imaged hand part;
using the sets of feature parameters for a set of two or more of the digitally-imaged hand parts, (a) combining sets of feature parameters for different hand parts to form sets of feature parameters for multiple hand parts, wherein a first set of feature parameters corresponds to a hand'"'"'s fingers and a second set of feature parameters corresponds to the hand'"'"'s palm and (b) computing a similarity of the set of two or more digitally-imaged hand parts to each of i) a first model eigenspace corresponding to a male class, and ii) a second model eigenspace corresponding to a female class, wherein the computed similarities are distances to each of the first and second eigenspaces; and
using the computed distances to classify the gender of the hand as belonging to the male class or the female class comprising;
forming a distance vector from the computed distances;
comparing the distance vector to each of k-nearest neighbor distance vectors in a set of training data; and
classifying the gender of the hand as belonging to the class corresponding to a majority of the k-nearest neighbor distance vectors in the set of training data.
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Abstract
For each of at least one digitally-imaged hand part, where each of the at least one digitally-imaged hand part corresponds to one of a plurality of hand parts, a set of feature parameters representing a geometry of the digitally-imaged hand part is computed. The set(s) of feature parameters for a set of one or more of the digitally-imaged hand parts is/are used to compute distances of the set of digitally-imaged hand parts from each of i) a first eigenspace corresponding to a male class, and ii) a second eigenspace corresponding to a female class. The computed distances are used to classify the gender of a hand as belonging to the male class or the female class.
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37 Claims
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1. A method of classifying the gender of a hand having a plurality of hand parts, the method comprising:
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for each of at least two digitally-imaged hand parts, where each of the at least two digitally-imaged hand part corresponds to one of the plurality of hand parts, computing a set of feature parameters representing a geometry of the digitally-imaged hand part; using the sets of feature parameters for a set of two or more of the digitally-imaged hand parts, (a) combining sets of feature parameters for different hand parts to form sets of feature parameters for multiple hand parts, wherein a first set of feature parameters corresponds to a hand'"'"'s fingers and a second set of feature parameters corresponds to the hand'"'"'s palm and (b) computing a similarity of the set of two or more digitally-imaged hand parts to each of i) a first model eigenspace corresponding to a male class, and ii) a second model eigenspace corresponding to a female class, wherein the computed similarities are distances to each of the first and second eigenspaces; and using the computed distances to classify the gender of the hand as belonging to the male class or the female class comprising; forming a distance vector from the computed distances; comparing the distance vector to each of k-nearest neighbor distance vectors in a set of training data; and classifying the gender of the hand as belonging to the class corresponding to a majority of the k-nearest neighbor distance vectors in the set of training data. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31)
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15. A gender classification computing system comprising:
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at least one processing unit; at least one memory; and computer-executable instructions stored in the at least one memory, the computer-executable instructions, when executed by the at least one processing unit to, for each of at least two digitally-imaged hand parts, where each of the at least two digitally-imaged hand parts corresponds to one of a plurality of hand parts, compute a set of feature parameters representing a geometry of the digitally-imaged hand part; using the sets of feature parameters for a set of two or more of the digitally-imaged hand parts, (a) combining sets of feature parameters for different hand parts to form sets of feature parameters for multiple hand parts, wherein a first set of feature parameters corresponds to a hand'"'"'s fingers and a second set of feature parameters corresponds to the hand'"'"'s palm and (b) compute distances of the set of digitally-imaged hand parts from each of i) a first eigenspace corresponding to a male class, and ii) a second eigenspace corresponding to a female class; and use the computed distances to classify the gender of the hand as belonging to the male class or the female class comprising; forming a distance vector from the computed distances; comparing the distance vector to each of k-nearest neighbor distance vectors in a set of training data; and classifying the gender of the hand as belonging to the class corresponding to a majority of the k-nearest neighbor distance vectors in the set of training data. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. A method of classifying the gender of a hand having a plurality of hand parts, the method comprising:
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for each of at least two digitally-imaged hand parts, where each of the at least two digitally-imaged hand part corresponds to one of the plurality of hand parts, computing a set of feature parameters representing a geometry of the digitally-imaged hand part; using the sets of feature parameters for a set of two or more of the digitally-imaged hand parts, (a) combining sets of feature parameters for different hand parts to form sets of feature parameters for multiple hand parts, wherein a first set of feature parameters corresponds to a hand'"'"'s fingers and a second set of feature parameters corresponds to the hand'"'"'s palm and (b) computing a distance of each of at least two sets of two or more digitally-imaged hand parts to each of (i) a first model eigenspace corresponding to first particular set of digitally-imaged hand parts of a male class, and (ii) a second model eigenspace corresponding to a second particular set of digitally-imaged hand parts of a female class; using the computed distances to classify the gender of the hand as belonging to the male class or the female class comprises; for each particular set of digitally-imaged hand parts, combining the distances of the particular set into a classification score; in accordance with a weighting function, assigning weights to the classification scores; combining the weighted classification scores into an overall score for the hand; and classifying the gender of the hand by comparing i) the overall score for the hand to ii) a threshold computed from a set of training data. - View Dependent Claims (21, 22)
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32. A gender classification computing system, comprising:
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at least one processing unit; at least one memory; and computer-executable instructions stored in the at least one memory, the computer-executable instructions, when executed by the at least one processing unit to, for each of at least two digitally-imaged hand parts, where each of the at least two digitally-imaged hand parts corresponds to one of a plurality of hand parts, compute a set of feature parameters representing a geometry of the digitally-imaged hand part; using the set(s) of feature parameters for a set of two or more of the digitally-imaged hand parts, (a) combining sets of feature parameters for different hand parts to form sets of feature parameters for multiple hand parts, wherein a first set of feature parameters corresponds to a hand'"'"'s fingers and a second set of feature parameters corresponds to the hand'"'"'s palm and (b) computing a distance of each of at least two sets of two or more digitally-imaged hand parts to each of (i) a first model eigenspace corresponding to first particular set of digitally-imaged hand parts of a male class, and (ii) a second model eigenspace corresponding to a second particular set of digitally-imaged hand parts of a female class; using the computed distances to classify the gender of the hand as belonging to the male class or the female class comprises; for each particular set of digitally-imaged hand parts, combining the distances of the particular set into a classification score; in accordance with a weighting function, assigning weights to the classification scores; combining the weighted classification scores into an overall score for the hand; and classifying the gender of the hand by comparing i) the overall score for the hand to ii) a threshold computed from a set of training data. - View Dependent Claims (33, 34, 35, 36, 37)
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