Approaches to Gender Classification: A Survey

Gender Classification is a compelling field in computer science and technology. A lot of research is already existing in this area because of its various applications in technology and medical field. Some of the applications include human-computer interaction [12], computer-aided physiological [12] or psychological analysis [12], biometric authentication [13], security [14], monitoring [14], surveillance [14] and commercial profiling [14]. Though this field seem to be interesting, there are underlying problems that has to be faced and eliminated for success of the different applications. The goal of this paper is to highlight various gender classification methods, the databases utilized by these methods and the problem faced during the classification process.