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Automatic Age Estimation Based on Facial Aging Patterns

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Automatic Age Estimation Based on Facial Aging Patterns
While recognition of most facial variations, such as identity, expression and gender, has been extensively studied, automatic age estimation has rarely been explored. In contrast to other facial variations, aging variation presents several unique characteristics which make age estimation a challenging task. This paper proposes an automatic age estimation method named AGES (AGing pattErn Subspace). The basic idea is to model the aging pattern, which is defined as the sequence of a particular individual’s face images sorted in time order, by constructing a representative subspace. The proper aging pattern for a previously unseen face image is determined by the projection in the subspace that can reconstruct the face image with minimum reconstruction error, while the position of the face image in that aging pattern will then indicate its age. In the experiments, AGES and its variants are compared with the limited existing age estimation methods (WAS and AAS) and some well-established ...
Xin Geng, Zhi-Hua Zhou, Kate Smith-Miles
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Type Journal
Year 2007
Where PAMI
Authors Xin Geng, Zhi-Hua Zhou, Kate Smith-Miles
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