Automatic age estimation based on facial aging patterns

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 29, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 2234-2240

  Geng, Xin ^a   Zhou, Zhi Hua ^b   Smith Miles, K ^a  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Age estimation; Computer vision; Face and gesture recognition; Machine learning; Pattern recognition

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER VISION; FACE RECOGNITION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; GESTURE RECOGNITION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LEARNING SYSTEMS;

AGE ESTIMATION; AGING PATTERN SUBSPACE;

IMAGE CLASSIFICATION;

AGING; ALGORITHM; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMETRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FACE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

AGING; ALGORITHMS; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BIOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FACE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 36248946626     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2007.70733     Document Type: Article

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