Comparing Different Classifiers for Automatic Age Estimation

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 621-628

  Lanitis, Andreas ^a   Draganova, Chrisina ^b   Christodoulou, Chris ^c  

^a CYPRUS COLLEGE   (Cyprus)

^b LONDON METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aging; Face recognition; Image classification; Neural networks

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC INDEXING; AUTOMATION; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); ERROR ANALYSIS; FACE RECOGNITION; FUNCTIONS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; NEURAL NETWORKS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

HUMAN AGING; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

AGE; AGING; ALGORITHM; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; FACE; FORENSIC MEDICINE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VALIDATION STUDY;

AGE FACTORS; AGING; ALGORITHMS; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; FACE; FORENSIC MEDICINE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PHOTOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0742290014     PISSN: 10834419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCB.2003.817091     Document Type: Article

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