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A Semi-Supervised Approach to Perceived Age Prediction from Face Images

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A Semi-Supervised Approach to Perceived Age Prediction from Face Images
We address the problem of perceived age estimation from face images, and propose a new semi-supervised approach involving two novel aspects. The first novelty is an efficient active learning strategy for reducing the cost of labeling face samples. Given a large number of unlabeled face samples, we reveal the cluster structure of the data and propose to label cluster-representative samples for covering as many clusters as possible. This simple sampling strategy allows us to boost the performance of a manifold-based semi-supervised learning method only with a relatively small number of labeled samples. The second contribution is to take the heterogeneous characteristics of human age perception into account. It is rare to misjudge the age of a 5-year-old child as 15 years old, but the age of a 35-year-old person is often misjudged as 45 years old. Thus, magnitude of the error is different depending on subjects’ age. We carried out a large-scale questionnaire survey for quantifying hu...
Kazuya Ueki, Masashi Sugiyama, Yasuyuki Ihara
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Type Journal
Year 2010
Where IEICET
Authors Kazuya Ueki, Masashi Sugiyama, Yasuyuki Ihara
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