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On automatic age estimation from facial profile view
Bukar, Ali M. Ugail, Hassan
Bukar, Ali M.
Ugail, Hassan
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2017-12
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© 2017 Institution of Engineering and Technology. This paper is a postprint of a paper submitted to and accepted for publication in IET Computer Vision and is subject to Institution of Engineering and Technology Copyright. The copy of record is available at IET Digital Library.
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2017-07-19
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In recent years, automatic facial age estimation has gained popularity due to its numerous applications. Much work has been done on frontal images and lately, minimal estimation errors have been achieved on most of the benchmark databases. However, in reality, images obtained in unconstrained environments are not always frontal. For instance, when conducting a demographic study or crowd analysis, one may get profile images of the face. To the best of our knowledge, no attempt has been made to estimate ages from the side-view of face images. Here we exploit this by using a pre-trained deep residual neural network (ResNet) to extract features. We then utilize a sparse partial least squares regression approach to estimate ages. Despite having less information as compared to frontal images, our results show that the extracted deep features achieve a promising performance.
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Bukar AM and Ugail H (2017) Automatic age estimation from facial profile view. IET Computer Vision. 11(8): 650-655.
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