(BIOSIG 2020 - Proceedings of the 19th International Conference of the Biometrics Special Interest Group, 2020) Molina, David; Causa, Leonardo; Tapia, Juan
This paper proposes and analyzes a new approach for reducing the bias in gender caused
by skin tone from faces based on transfer learning with fine-tuning. The categorization of the ethnicity
was developed based on an objective method instead of a subjective Fitzpatrick scale. A Kmeans
method was used to categorize the color faces using clusters of RGB pixel values. Also, a new
database was collected from the internet and will be available upon request. Our method outperforms
the state of the art and reduces the gender classification bias using the skin-type categorization. The
best results were achieved with VGGNET architecture with 96.71% accuracy and 3.29% error rate.