Age estimation using active appearance models and support vector machine regression

IEEE 3rd International Conference on Biometrics: Theory, Applications and Systems, BTAS 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Luu, Khoa ^a   Ricanek Jr , Karl ^b   Bui, Tien D ^a   Suen, Ching Y ^a  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE ERROR; ACTIVE APPEARANCE MODELS; AGE ESTIMATION; FACE IMAGES; FEATURE VECTORS; HUMAN DEVELOPMENT; INPUT IMAGE; RECOGNITION RATES; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE REGRESSIONS;

BIOMETRICS; ESTIMATION; GEARS; MULTILAYER NEURAL NETWORKS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

FACE RECOGNITION;

EID: 71749087727     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/BTAS.2009.5339053     Document Type: Conference Paper

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