Human age estimation by metric learning for regression problems

Proceedings of the 2009 6th International Conference on Computer Graphics, Imaging and Visualization: New Advances and Trends, CGIV2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 343-348

  Long, Yangjing ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MATHEMATICS IN THE SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTANCE METRIC LEARNING; FACE IMAGES; GAUSSIAN PROCESS REGRESSION; HUMAN AGE ESTIMATION; INTRINSIC AGING; LINEAR TRANSFORMATION; MANIFOLD LEARNING ALGORITHM; METRIC LEARNING; OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; PRIOR KNOWLEDGE; REAL-WORLD APPLICATION; REGRESSION METHOD; REGRESSION PROBLEM; TEST DATA;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VISUALIZATION;

LEARNING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 70549108980     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CGIV.2009.91     Document Type: Conference Paper

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