Title
A New Method for Age Estimation from Facial Images by Hierarchical Model
Abstract
Different from the traditional age estimation systems, this paper introduces a novel method to estimate human age from facial images combined with non-fixed age group classification and Rank-based age value estimation. The basic idea is to use the continuous and ordinal information from human facial aging process. Firstly, pair-wise distance classifiers are employed to roughly estimate age within total database. Then a flexible and more precise age group is decided by extending the rough age value to a specific age scope. For the ranking framework of precious age estimation, by calculating the continental distances to select the most similar sample from the training database. The average label of the voted samples is used to predict age. In our proposed system, six-dimension shape features and different texture features are used to describe facial images. Tested on FG-NET database, our system achieves 4.89 evaluated by MAE (Mean Absolute Error).
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1145/2556871.2556891
ICCC
Keywords
Field
DocType
facial images,new method,fg-net database,hierarchical model,traditional age estimation system,specific age scope,precise age group,non-fixed age group classification,human age,age estimation,facial image,rank-based age value estimation,rough age value,precious age estimation,ranking
Data mining,Ranking,Pattern recognition,Ordinal number,Computer science,Mean absolute error,Artificial intelligence,Hierarchical database model
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.39
10
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Li Zhang19313.90
Xianmei Wang233.09
Yuyu Liang331.40
Lun Xie42710.06