Learning gabor features for facial age estimation

Authors:
Cuixian Chen;Wankou Yang;Yishi Wang;Shiguang Shan;Karl Ricanek
Affiliations:
University of North Carolina Wilmington;University of North Carolina Wilmington;University of North Carolina Wilmington;Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China;University of North Carolina Wilmington
Venue:
CCBR'11 Proceedings of the 6th Chinese conference on Biometric recognition
Year:
2011

Citing 15
Cited 0

Toward Automatic Simulation of Aging Effects on Face Images

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Active Appearance Models

ECCV '98 Proceedings of the 5th European Conference on Computer Vision-Volume II - Volume II
Face recognition: A literature survey

ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Automatic Age Estimation Based on Facial Aging Patterns

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Multiple feature fusion by subspace learning

CIVR '08 Proceedings of the 2008 international conference on Content-based image and video retrieval
Face Age Classification on Consumer Images with Gabor Feature and Fuzzy LDA Method

ICB '09 Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Advances in Biometrics
Comparison of synthetic face aging to age progression by forensic sketch artist

VIIP '07 The Seventh IASTED International Conference on Visualization, Imaging and Image Processing
A Compositional and Dynamic Model for Face Aging

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Fusing Gabor and LBP feature sets for kernel-based face recognition

AMFG'07 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Analysis and modeling of faces and gestures
Age Synthesis and Estimation via Faces: A Survey

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Human Age Estimation With Regression on Discriminative Aging Manifold

IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
Comparing different classifiers for automatic age estimation

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics
Gabor feature based classification using the enhanced fisher linear discriminant model for face recognition

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
Image-Based Human Age Estimation by Manifold Learning and Locally Adjusted Robust Regression

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
Demographic classification with local binary patterns

ICB'07 Proceedings of the 2007 international conference on Advances in Biometrics

Quantified Score

Hi-index	0.00

Visualization

Abstract

In this work we aim to study rigorously the facial age estimation in a multiethnic environment with 39 possible combination of four feature normalization methods, two simple feature fusion methods, two feature selection methods, and three face representation methods as Gabor, AAM and LBP. First, Gabor feature is extracted as facial representation for age estimation. Inspired by [3], we further fuse the global Active Appearance Model (AAM) and the local Gabor features as the representation of faces. Combining with feature selection schemes such as Least Angle Regression (LAR) and sequential selection, an advanced age estimation system is proposed on the fused features. Systematic comparative of 39 experiments demonstrate that (1) As a single facial representation, Gabor features surprisedly outperform LBP features or even AAM features. (2) With global/local feature fusion scheme, fused Gabor and AAM or fused LBP and AAM features can achieve significant improvement in age estimation over single feature representation alone.