Abstract
In recent years, it became an information society and information became important in social economy. There is sex as one
element of the customer analysis, and automatic male-and-female discernment is necessary. This laboratory discovered the
male-and-female difference to be at the hair in the near-infrared ray area. This research combines the hair with the
male-and-female difference with overhead-photography that the load of the customer is a little at the time of photography,
investigation of male-and-female discernment using the near-infrared image from overhead, and the automation from image
processing to male-and-female discernment is investigated.
