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20.09.2018 | Short Paper

Age estimation in facial images through transfer learning

verfasst von: F. Dornaika, I. Arganda-Carreras, C. Belver

Erschienen in: Machine Vision and Applications | Ausgabe 1/2019

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Abstract

This paper was aimed to address the problem of image-based human age estimation. It has the following main contributions. First, we provide a comparison of three hand-crafted image features and five deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs). Secondly, we show that the use of pre-trained DCNNs as feature extractors can transfer the knowledge of DCNNs to new datasets and domains that were not necessarily addressed in the training phase. This is achieved by only retraining a shallow regressor over the deep features. Thirdly, we provide a cross-database evaluation involving biological and apparent ages. The paper shows that transfer learning allows the use of pre-trained DCNNs regardless of the type of ages (apparent or biological) that is adopted in DCNN training. The experiments are carried out on three public databases: MORPH, PAL, and Chalearn2016.

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for original and aligned MORPH images and PAL images, respectively.
 
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Metadaten
Titel
Age estimation in facial images through transfer learning
verfasst von
F. Dornaika
I. Arganda-Carreras
C. Belver
Publikationsdatum
20.09.2018
Verlag
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Erschienen in
Machine Vision and Applications / Ausgabe 1/2019
Print ISSN: 0932-8092
Elektronische ISSN: 1432-1769
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00138-018-0976-1

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