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Ethnicity classification begins with face detection as a preprocessing process to determine a human\u2019s presence; then, the feature representation is extracted from the isolated facial image to predict the ethnicity class. This study utilized four handcrafted features (multi-local binary pattern (MLBP), histogram of gradient (HOG), color histogram, and speeded-up-robust-features-based (SURF-based)) as the basis for the generation of a compact-fusion feature. The compact-fusion framework involves optimal feature selection, compact feature extraction, and compact-fusion feature representation. The final feature representation was trained and tested with the SVM One Versus All classifier for ethnicity classification. When it was evaluated in two large datasets, UTKFace and Fair Face, the proposed framework achieved accuracy levels of 89.14%, 82.19%, and 73.87%, respectively, for the UTKFace dataset with four or five classes and the Fair Face dataset with four classes. 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