Research Article

Impact of Occlusion Masks on Gender Classification from Iris Texture

Table 3

Results using the GFI dataset, showing the effect of using paired and corrected masks.

Test typePaired masksResolutionCorrected masksAccuracy (%)

VGG-fullNo240 × 20No62.13 ± 2.37
Yes61.69 ± 2.72
240 × 40No63.34 ± 2.64
Yes61.89 ± 2.95
Yes240 × 20No58.36 ± 2.84
Yes56.39 ± 3.36
240 × 40No59.11 ± 3.10
Yes55.99 ± 2.82

VGG + LSVMNo240 × 20No63.97 ± 1.64
Yes62.79 ± 1.67
240 × 40No65.43 ± 1.93
Yes62.01 ± 2.12
Yes240 × 20No58.72 ± 2.02
Yes56.42 ± 1.77
240 × 40No60.62 ± 2.13
Yes56.96 ± 1.69

VGG + SVM-RBFNo240 × 20No63.94 ± 2.27
Yes63.24 ± 2.18
240 × 40No64.09 ± 2.50
Yes62.74 ± 1.87
Yes240 × 20No58.02 ± 2.21
Yes56.14 ± 1.79
240 × 40No60.46 ± 2.01
Yes55.83 ± 1.85

VGG + KNNNo240 × 20No57.17 ± 1.55
Yes56.85 ± 1.55
240 × 40No57.63 ± 1.85
Yes55.79 ± 1.62
Yes240 × 20No52.81 ± 1.85
Yes51.98 ± 1.62
240 × 40No54.15 ± 1.71
Yes51.93 ± 1.89

VGG + RFNo240 × 20No60.64 ± 2.31
Yes61.29 ± 1.93
240 × 40No61.28 ± 2.10
Yes60.46 ± 2.31
Yes240 × 20No55.90 ± 2.08
Yes54.37 ± 1.77
240 × 40No56.55 ± 1.73
Yes54.44 ± 1.94

Highest and lowest accuracies for each test are shown in bold letters.