There is a controversy in the literature as to the effects of gender on leucine kinetics. Two research groups found that men oxidize more leucine during exercise, whereas another group showed no gender effects. The purpose of our study was to examine the effects of gender on leucine and, for comparison purposes, lysine kinetics. Our subjects (n = 14) were seven matched pairs of men and women se...

We consider the problem of perturbing a face image in such a way that it cannot be used to ascertain soft biometric attributes such as age, gender and race, but can be used for automatic face recognition. Such an exercise is useful for extending different levels of privacy to a face image in a central database. In this work, we focus on masking the gender information in a face image with respec...