Regression from uncertain labels and its applications to soft biometrics

IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 698-708

  Yan, Shuicheng ^a   Wang, Huan ^b   Tang, Xiaoou ^c   Liu, Jianzhuang ^c   Huang, Thomas S ^d  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b Yale University   (United States)

^c CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

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

Author keywords

Semidefinite programming; Son biometrics; Uncertain labels

Indexed keywords

BIOMETRICS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; DEMODULATION; FACE RECOGNITION; FORECASTING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

AGE ESTIMATIONS; AUTOMATIC DESIGNS; ESTIMATION ACCURACIES; FROBENIUS NORMS; GENERALIZATION CAPABILITIES; HEAD POSES; HUMAN AGES; INEQUALITY CONSTRAINTS; MATRIX ELEMENTS; NON NEGATIVITIES; NONLINEAR MAPPINGS; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; POSE ESTIMATIONS; PREDICTION CAPABILITIES; REGRESSION ALGORITHMS; SEMIDEFINITE PROGRAMMING; SEMIDEFINITE PROGRAMMINGS; SOFT BIOMETRICS; SON BIOMETRICS; TRAINING SAMPLES; UNCERTAIN LABELS;

LABELS;

EID: 56749183374     PISSN: 15566013     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIFS.2008.2006585     Document Type: Article

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