Recognizing age-separated face images: Humans and machines

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2014, Pages

  Yadav, Daksha ^a   Singh, Richa ^b   Vatsa, Mayank ^b   Noore, Afzel ^a  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDRAPRASTHA INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGE; AGE DETERMINATION; AGE SEPARATED FACE RECOGNITION; AGING; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; AUTOMATIC FACE RECOGNITION ALGORITHM; BINOCULAR REGION; COGNITIVE BIAS; ETHNICITY; FACE; FACIAL AGE ESTIMATION; FACIAL AGING; FACIES; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOUTH; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PREDICTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ALGORITHM; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BIOMETRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGING; ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BIOMETRY; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED;

EID: 84915749309     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0112234     Document Type: Article

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