Image-based human age estimation by manifold learning and locally adjusted robust regression

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1178-1188

  Guo, Guodong ^a   Fu, Yun ^b   Dyer, Charles R ^c   Huang, Thomas S ^b  

^a NORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

Author keywords

Age manifold; Human age estimation; Locally adjusted robust regression; Manifold learning; Nonlinear regression; Support vector machine (SVM); Support vector regression (SVR)

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMMUNICATION; COMPUTER VISION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; EDUCATION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; FOOD PROCESSING; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

AGE ESTIMATION; AGE MANIFOLD; AGING PROCESSES; CHALLENGING PROBLEM; COMPUTER-VISION SYSTEMS; EXTERNAL FACTORS; FACIAL IMAGING; HUMAN AGE ESTIMATION; IMAGE-BASED; LOCALLY ADJUSTED ROBUST REGRESSION; MANIFOLD LEARNING; MULTIMEDIA COMMUNICATIONS; NONLINEAR REGRESSION; PRACTICAL USE; REAL-WORLD APPLICATIONS; ROBUST REGRESSIONS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE (SVM); SUPPORT VECTOR REGRESSION (SVR); WEATHER CONDITIONS;

ESTIMATION;

AGING; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; FACE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

AGING; ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; FACE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 45949109037     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2008.924280     Document Type: Article

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