A Hierarchical Framework for Facial Age Estimation

作者:Liang, Yuyu; Wang, Xianmei*; Zhang, Li; Wang, Zhiliang
来源:Mathematical Problems in Engineering, 2014, 2014: 242846.
DOI:10.1155/2014/242846

摘要

Age estimation is a complex issue of multiclassification or regression. To address the problems of uneven distribution of age database and ignorance of ordinal information, this paper shows a hierarchic age estimation system, comprising age group and specific age estimation. In our system, two novel classifiers, sequence k-nearest neighbor (SKNN) and ranking-KNN, are introduced to predict age group and value, respectively. Notably, ranking-KNN utilizes the ordinal information between samples in estimation process rather than regards samples as separate individuals. Tested on FG-NET database, our system achieves 4.97 evaluated by MAE (mean absolute error) for age estimation.