Subspace learning for facial age estimation via pairwise age ranking

IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 2164-2176

  Chen, Yi Lei ^a   Hsu, Chiou Ting ^a  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

age ranking; facial age estimation; semi supervised learning; Subspace learning

Indexed keywords

AGE ESTIMATION; AGE RANKING; CONSTRAINED OPTIMI-ZATION PROBLEMS; IDENTITY AUTHENTICATION; LOW-DIMENSIONAL SPACES; SEMI-SUPERVISED LEARNING; SUBSPACE LEARNING; SUPPORT VECTOR REGRESSION (SVR);

BIOMETRICS; CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION; SUPERVISED LEARNING; VECTORS; VISUALIZATION;

FACE RECOGNITION;

EID: 84888627685     PISSN: 15566013     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIFS.2013.2286265     Document Type: Article

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