Automated gender prediction has drawn significant interest in numerous applications such as surveillance, humancomputer interaction, anonymous customised advertisement system, image retrieval system, and biometrics. In the context of smartphone devices, gender information has been used to enhance the accuracy of the integrated biometric authentication and mobile healthcare system. Here, the authors thoroughly investigate gender prediction from ocular images acquired using frontfacing cameras of smartphones. This is a new problem as previous research in this area has not explored RGB ocular images captured by smartphones. The authors used deep learning for the task. Specifically, pre-trained and custom convolutional neural network architectures have been implemented for gender prediction. Multi-classifier fusion has been used to improve the prediction accuracy. Further, evaluation of off-the-self-texture descriptors and study of human ability in gender prediction has been conducted for comparative analysis.
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