A cascaded convolutional neural network for age estimation of unconstrained faces

2016 IEEE 8th International Conference on Biometrics Theory, Applications and Systems, BTAS 2016

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages

  Chen, Jun Cheng ^a   Kumar, Amit ^a   Ranjan, Rajeev ^a   Patel, Vishal M ^b   Alavi, Azadeh ^a   Chellappa, Rama ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMETRICS; CONVOLUTION; ERROR CORRECTION; NEURAL NETWORKS;

AGE ESTIMATION; AGE PREDICTIONS; COARSE TO FINE; COARSE-TO-FINE STRATEGY; CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORK; ERROR-CORRECTING; EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION; FINE GRAINED;

DEEP NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 85011277914     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/BTAS.2016.7791154     Document Type: Conference Paper

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