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Gait-based Gender Classification Considering Resampling and Feature Selection

Raúl Martín-Félez, Vicente García, and J. Salvador Sánchez
Institute of New Imaging Technologies/DLSI-Universitat Jaume I, Castelló de la Plana, Spain

Abstract—Two intrinsic data characteristics that arise in many domains are the class imbalance and the high dimensionality, which pose new challenges that should be addressed. When using gait for gender classification, benchmarking public databases and renowned gait representations lead to these two problems, but they have not been jointly studied in depth. This paper is a preliminary study that pursues to investigate the benefits of using several techniques to tackle the aforementioned problems either singly or in combination, and also to evaluate the order of application that leads to the best classification performance. Experimental results show the importance of jointly managing both problems for gait-based gender classification. In particular, it seems that the best strategy consists of applying resampling followed by feature selection.

Index Terms—gender classification, class imbalance, high dimensionality, resampling, feature selection

Cite: Raúl Martín-Félez, Vicente García, and J. Salvador Sánchez, "Gait-based Gender Classification Considering Resampling and Feature Selection," Journal of Image and Graphics, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 85-89, June 2013. doi: 10.12720/joig.1.2.85-89