Title
Make the Bag Disappear: Carrying Status-invariant Gait-based Human Age Estimation using Parallel Generative Adversarial Networks
Abstract
Existing approaches to gait-based human age estimation seldom consider variations such as carried objects, which greatly alter appearance of gait features (e.g., gait energy images) and result in poor age estimation results. Therefore, we propose a method of gait-based human age estimation robust against carrying status using generative adversarial networks. Specifically, we consider a generative network that outputs a gait feature without carried objects (i.e., it makes the carried objects disappear) given an input gait feature with or without carried objects, and then learns the parallel generative network with shared weights from a pair of gait features of the same subject with and without carried objects. Thereafter, the generated gait features are separately fed into the same subsequent age regression network for age estimation, which is trained in an end-to-end manner in conjunction with the parallel generative network. Because of this design, the proposed method can generate gait features without carried objects that are suitable for gait-based age estimation regardless of the carrying status of the input gait features, and therefore improve the age estimation accuracy under carrying status variations. Experimental results on a large gait dataset with carried objects show the state-of-the-art performance of the proposed method.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/BTAS46853.2019.9185973
2019 IEEE 10th International Conference on Biometrics Theory, Applications and Systems (BTAS)
Keywords
DocType
ISSN
carried objects,gait energy images,poor age estimation results,input gait feature,parallel generative network,generated gait features,subsequent age regression network,gait-based age estimation,age estimation accuracy,gait dataset,carrying status-invariant gait-based human age estimation,parallel generative adversarial networks
Conference
2474-9680
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-7281-1523-8
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xiang Li18140.11
Yasushi Makihara2101270.67
C. Xu38013.87
Yasushi Yagi41752186.22
Mingwu Ren516817.44