Facial age estimation by learning from label distributions

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 2401-2412

  Geng, Xin ^a   Yin, Chao ^a   Zhou, Zhi Hua ^b  

^a SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Age estimation; face image; label distribution; machine learning

Indexed keywords

AGE ESTIMATION; CHRONOLOGICAL AGE; FACE DATABASE; FACE IMAGES; LABEL DISTRIBUTION; NUMBER OF CLASS; TRAINING DATA;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER VISION; LEARNING SYSTEMS;

LEARNING ALGORITHMS;

AGING; ALGORITHM; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BIOMETRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; FACE; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; HISTOLOGY; METHODOLOGY;

AGING; ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BIOMETRY; FACE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84883152047     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2013.51     Document Type: Article

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