Learning nonlinear distance functions using neural network for regression with application to robust human age estimation

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 249-254

  Fan, Na ^a  

^a EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AGE ESTIMATION; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DISTANCE FUNCTIONS; FACE IMAGES; HUMAN AGE ESTIMATION; OUTLIER SAMPLES; REGRESSION PROBLEM; ROBUST REGRESSIONS; STATE OF THE ART;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 84856674165     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICCV.2011.6126249     Document Type: Conference Paper

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