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Ensemble Learning for Facial Age Estimation Within Non-Ideal Facial Imagery
Yu,Ningning1; Qian,Liping1,2; Huang,Yupin1; Wu,Yuan3
2019-08
Source PublicationIEEE Access
ISSN2169-3536
Volume7Pages:97938-97948
Abstract

Human facial age estimation has been widely used in many computer vision applications, including security surveillance, forensics, biometrics, human-computer interaction (HCI), and so on. We propose a facial age estimation method oriented to non-ideal facial imagery. The method consists of image preprocessing, feature extraction, and age predication. First, we preprocess non-ideal input images in RGB stream, luminance modified (LM) stream, and YIQ stream. Then, we leverage the deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) to extract the feature of images preprocessed in each stream. To reduce the training data volume and training complexity, we adopt the transfer learning to build the DCNN structure. With the extracted feature, the weak classifier equipped at every stream is designed to obtain a weak classification prediction of the age range. Moreover, in order to generate estimation, we use the ensemble learning to fuse the three weak classifiers. We design an integrated strategy algorithm based on the combination of voting method and weighted average method. The simulation results show that our proposed algorithm can improve the an exact match (AEM) and an error of one age category (AEO) by 4.75% and 6.75% compared with the best AEM and AEO of the three weak classifiers. Furthermore, in comparison with the unweighted average method, our proposed algorithm can improve the AEM and AEO by 8.68% and 12.79%, respectively.

KeywordDeep Convolutional Neural Network Ensemble Learning Facial Age Estimation Image Preprocessing Transfer Learning
DOI10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2928843
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Indexed BySCIE
Language英語English
WOS Research AreaComputer Science ; Engineering ; Telecommunications
WOS SubjectComputer Science, Information Systems ; Engineering, Electrical & Electronic ; Telecommunications
WOS IDWOS:000478966400031
PublisherIEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC, 445 HOES LANE, PISCATAWAY, NJ 08855-4141 USA
Scopus ID2-s2.0-85070437599
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Document TypeJournal article
CollectionUniversity of Macau
Corresponding AuthorQian,Liping
Affiliation1.College of Information Engineering,Zhejiang University of Technology,Hangzhou,310023,China
2.National Mobile Communications Research Laboratory,Southeast University,Nanjing,210096,China
3.Department of Computer and Information Science,University of Macau,999078,Macao
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Yu,Ningning,Qian,Liping,Huang,Yupin,et al. Ensemble Learning for Facial Age Estimation Within Non-Ideal Facial Imagery[J]. IEEE Access, 2019, 7, 97938-97948.
APA Yu,Ningning., Qian,Liping., Huang,Yupin., & Wu,Yuan (2019). Ensemble Learning for Facial Age Estimation Within Non-Ideal Facial Imagery. IEEE Access, 7, 97938-97948.
MLA Yu,Ningning,et al."Ensemble Learning for Facial Age Estimation Within Non-Ideal Facial Imagery".IEEE Access 7(2019):97938-97948.
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