Title
Bridgenet: A Continuity-Aware Probabilistic Network For Age Estimation
Abstract
Age estimation is an important yet very challenging problem in computer vision. Existing methods for age estimation usually apply a divide-and-conquer strategy to deal with heterogeneous data caused by the non-stationary aging process. However, the facial aging process is also a continuous process, and the continuity relationship between different components has not been effectively exploited. In this paper, we propose BridgeNet for age estimation, which aims to mine the continuous relation between age labels effectively. The proposed BridgeNet consists of local regressors and gating networks. Local regressors partition the data space into multiple overlapping subspaces to tackle heterogeneous data and gating networks learn continuity aware weights for the results of local regressors by employing the proposed bridge-tree structure, which introduces bridge connections into tree models to enforce the similarity between neighbor nodes. Moreover, these two components of BridgeNet can be jointly learned in an end-to-end way. We show experimental results on the MORPH II, FG-NET and Chalearn LAP 2015 datasets and find that BridgeNet outperforms the state-of-the-art methods.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/CVPR.2019.00124
2019 IEEE/CVF CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER VISION AND PATTERN RECOGNITION (CVPR 2019)
Field
DocType
Volume
Data space,Gating,Computer science,Linear subspace,Artificial intelligence,Probabilistic logic,Partition (number theory),Machine learning
Journal
abs/1904.03358
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1063-6919
2
0.36
References 
Authors
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Wanhua Li122.73
Jiwen Lu23105153.88
Jianjiang Feng381462.59
Chunjing Xu46116.98
Jie Zhou52103190.17
Qi Tian66443331.75