Feasibility of facial EMG in gender classification during speech production

Gender identification has its unique importance in sports and forensic sciences. However, the social issues are major constraints to identify the gender of a human being. A novel approach for gender classification using facial EMG is presented. The time domain features of facial EMGs are explored towards their robustness in gender identification. A Davies-Bouldin index is calculated to evaluate the features. Anterior belly of digastrics along with Orbicularis Oris Inferior showed the promising classification accuracy of 80% with the reported features. A possible enhancement in accuracy could be possible by a larger dataset.