Predicting occupation from single facial images

Facial images embed age, gender, and other rich information that is implicitly related to occupation. In this work, we advocate that occupation prediction from a single facial image is a doable research direction. We first extract visual features from multiple levels of patches and describe them by locality-constrained linear coding. To avoid the curse of dimensionality and over fitting, a boost strategy called multi-feature SVM is used to integrate features. Intra-class and inter-class visual variations are jointly considered in the boosting framework to further improve performance. In the evaluation, we verify that this is a promising research topic with encouraging performance, and also discuss interesting issues from various perspectives.