Deep Convolutional Neural Network for Age Estimation based on VGG-Face Model
Abstract
Automatic age estimation from real-world and unconstrained face images is rapidly gaining importance. In our proposed work, a deep CNN model that was trained on a database for face recognition task is used to estimate the age information on the Adience database. This paper has three significant contributions in this field. (1) This work proves that a CNN model, which was trained for face recognition task, can be utilized for age estimation to improve performance; (2) Over fitting problem can be overcome by employing a pretrained CNN on a large database for face recognition task; (3) Not only the number of training images and the number subjects in a training database effect the performance of the age estimation model, but also the pre-training task of the employed CNN determines the performance of the model.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1709.01664,
title = {Deep Convolutional Neural Network for Age Estimation based on VGG-Face Model},
author = {Zakariya Qawaqneh and Arafat Abu Mallouh and Buket D. Barkana},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1709.01664},
year = {2017}
}
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8 pages, 2 figures