Learning-based encoding with soft assignment for age estimation under unconstrained imaging conditions

Image and Vision Computing

Volumn 30, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 946-953

  Alnajar, Fares ^a,b   Shan, Caifeng ^b   Gevers, Theo ^a   Geusebroek, Jan Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Age estimation; Codebook; Face; Local features

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); ENCODING (SYMBOLS); GRAPHIC METHODS;

AGE ESTIMATION; AGE GROUPS; CODEBOOKS; DATA SETS; ENCODING METHODS; FACE; FACE IMAGES; FACIAL FEATURE; FEATURE VECTORS; IMAGING CONDITIONS; LOCAL FEATURE; LOCAL GRADIENTS; MULTIPLE CODEBOOKS; ORIENTATION HISTOGRAMS; SAMPLE FEATURES; SOFT ENCODING; WEIGHTING SCHEME;

FACE RECOGNITION;

EID: 84869487835     PISSN: 02628856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.imavis.2012.07.009     Document Type: Article

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