Title
Improving handwriting based gender classification using ensemble classifiers.
Abstract
•A system to predict gender from images of handwriting using textural descriptors.•Multiple classifiers to discriminate male and female writings.•Classifiers combined using bagging, voting and stacking techniques.•Generic and script-independent approach applied to English and Arabic handwritings.•Improved results on the QUWI database once compared to state-of-the-art methods.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1016/j.eswa.2017.05.033
Expert Systems with Applications
Keywords
Field
DocType
Handwritten documents,Gender classification,Classifier combination,Textural features
Decision tree,Handwriting,Pattern recognition,Segmentation,Computer science,Support vector machine,Local binary patterns,Histogram of oriented gradients,Artificial intelligence,Artificial neural network,Random forest,Machine learning
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
85
C
0957-4174
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
8
0.51
27
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mahreen Ahmed190.85
Asma Ghulam Rasool280.51
Hammad Afzal34111.31
Imran Siddiqi442136.56