A new algorithm for age recognition from facial images

Signal Processing

Volumn 90, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 2431-2444

  Dehshibi, Mohammad Mahdi ^a   Bastanfard, Azam ^b  

^a ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Age group recognition; Artificial neural network; Face image database; Facial feature extraction; Wrinkle analysis

Indexed keywords

AGE CLASSIFICATION; AGE GROUPS; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; DIGITAL IMAGE; FACE DATABASE; FACE FEATURES; FACE IMAGE DATABASE; FACIAL FEATURE; FACIAL FEATURE EXTRACTION; FACIAL IMAGES; FRONTAL FACES; GEOMETRIC FEATURE; PRE-PROCESSING;

ALGORITHMS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; NEURAL NETWORKS;

FACE RECOGNITION;

EID: 77951207560     PISSN: 01651684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sigpro.2010.02.015     Document Type: Article

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