3D age progression prediction in children's faces with a small exemplar-image set

Journal of Information Science and Engineering

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1131-1148

  Shen, Cheng Ta ^a   Huang, Fay ^b   Lu, Wan Hua ^a   Shih, Sheng Wen ^a   Liao, Hong Yuan Mark ^c  

^a NATIONAL CHI NAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION SCIENCE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Age progression prediction; Face image synthesis; Growth curve; Metric learning; Missing children search

Indexed keywords

DISTANCE MEASUREMENT; FORECASTING;

AGE PROGRESSION PREDICTIONS; FACE IMAGE SYNTHESIS; GROWTH CURVES; METRIC LEARNING; MISSING CHILDREN;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 84920928310     PISSN: 10162364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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