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LBP (Local Binary Pattern) as an image operator is used to extract LBPH (LBP histogram) features for texture description. In this paper, we present a novel method to use LBPH feature in ordinary binary classification problem. Given a restricted local patch, the Chi square distance between the extracted LBPH and a reference histogram is used as a measure of confidence belonging to the reference class, and an optimal reference histogram is obtained by iteratively optimization; real AdaBoost algorithm is used to learn a sequence of best local features iteratively and combine them into a strong classifier. The experiments on age, gender and ethnicity classification demonstrate its effectiveness.
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Yang, Z., Ai, H. (2007). Demographic Classification with Local Binary Patterns. In: Lee, SW., Li, S.Z. (eds) Advances in Biometrics. ICB 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4642. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74549-5_49
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