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Random forest (RF) stands out as a highly favored machine learning approach for classification problems. The effectiveness of RF hinges on two key factors: the accuracy of individual trees and the diversity among them. In this study, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Ye-eun Kim , Seoung Yun Kim , Hyunjoong Kim

Age estimation of face images is a crucial task with various practical applications in areas such as video surveillance and Internet access control. While deep learning-based age estimation frameworks, e.g., convolutional neural network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-03 Yuntao Shou , Xiangyong Cao , Deyu Meng

Age estimation is an essential challenge in computer vision. With the advances of convolutional neural networks, the performance of age estimation has been dramatically improved. Existing approaches usually treat age estimation as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Yi Zhou , Heikki Huttunen , Tapio Elomaa

In multi-label learning, each instance is associated with multiple labels and the crucial task is how to leverage label correlations in building models. Deep neural network methods usually jointly embed the feature and label information…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-18 Liang Yang , Xi-Zhu Wu , Yuan Jiang , Zhi-Hua Zhou

Estimating age from a single speech is a classic and challenging topic. Although Label Distribution Learning (LDL) can represent adjacent indistinguishable ages well, the uncertainty of the age estimate for each utterance varies from person…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Zuheng Kang , Jianzong Wang , Junqing Peng , Jing Xiao

One of the most prevalent symptoms among the elderly population, dementia, can be detected by classifiers trained on linguistic features extracted from narrative transcripts. However, these linguistic features are impacted in a similar but…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Zining Zhu , Jekaterina Novikova , Frank Rudzicz

Automated facial age estimation has diverse real-world applications in multimedia analysis, e.g., video surveillance, and human-computer interaction. However, due to the randomness and ambiguity of the aging process, age assessment is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Ziyuan Zhao , Peisheng Qian , Yubo Hou , Zeng Zeng

Facial Expression Recognition (FER) systems based on deep learning have achieved impressive performance in recent years. However, these models often exhibit demographic biases, particularly with respect to age, which can compromise their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-11 F. Xavier Gaya-Morey , Julia Sanchez-Perez , Cristina Manresa-Yee , Jose M. Buades-Rubio

Alternative unsplit-filed-based absorbing boundary condition (ABC) computation approach for the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) is efficiently proposed based on the deep differentiable forest. The deep differentiable forest (DDF) model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-13 Yingshi Chen , Naixing Feng

The purpose of this study was to investigate the use of deep learning for coniferous/deciduous classification of individual trees from airborne LiDAR data. To enable efficient processing by a deep convolutional neural network (CNN), we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-27 Hamid Hamraz , Nathan B. Jacobs , Marco A. Contreras , Chase H. Clark

Random forest is widely exploited as an ensemble learning method. In many practical applications, however, there is still a significant challenge to learn from imbalanced data. To alleviate this limitation, we propose a deep dynamic boosted…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Haixin Wang , Xingzhang Ren , Jinan Sun , Wei Ye , Long Chen , Muzhi Yu , Shikun Zhang

This paper presents an autonomous approach to tree detection and segmentation in high resolution airborne LiDAR that utilises state-of-the-art region-based CNN and 3D-CNN deep learning algorithms. If the number of training examples for a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-10-31 Lloyd Windrim , Mitch Bryson

Label ambiguity poses a significant challenge in age estimation tasks. Most existing methods address this issue by modeling correlations between adjacent age groups through label distribution learning. However, they often overlook the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Bo Wu , Zhiqi Ai , Jun Jiang , Congcong Zhu , Shugong Xu

This work introduces a novel deep-learning approach for estimating age from a single facial image by refining an initial age estimate. The refinement leverages a reference face database of individuals with similar ages and appearances. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Ran Sandhaus , Yosi Keller

Brain aging is a complex and dynamic process, leading to functional and structural changes in the brain. These changes could lead to the increased risk of neurodegenerative diseases and cognitive decline. Accurate brain-age estimation…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-30 Saadat Behzadi , Danial Sharifrazi , Roohallah Alizadehsani , Mojtaba Lotfaliany , Mohammadreza Mohebbi

Accurate segmentation of skin lesion from dermoscopic images is a crucial part of computer-aided diagnosis of melanoma. It is challenging due to the fact that dermoscopic images from different patients have non-negligible lesion variation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-21 Xiaohong Wang , Xudong Jiang , Henghui Ding , Jun Liu

With the increasing popularity of convolutional neural networks (CNNs), recent works on face-based age estimation employ these networks as the backbone. However, state-of-the-art CNN-based methods treat each facial region equally, thus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Haoyi Wang , Victor Sanchez , Chang-Tsun Li

Deep learning-based facial recognition systems have experienced increased media attention due to exhibiting unfair behavior. Large enterprises, such as IBM, shut down their facial recognition and age prediction systems as a consequence. Age…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Yushi Cao , David Berend , Palina Tolmach , Guy Amit , Moshe Levy , Yang Liu , Asaf Shabtai , Yuval Elovici

As facial appearance is subject to significant intra-class variations caused by the aging process over time, age-invariant face recognition (AIFR) remains a major challenge in face recognition community. To reduce the intra-class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-18 Yitong Wang , Dihong Gong , Zheng Zhou , Xing Ji , Hao Wang , Zhifeng Li , Wei Liu , Tong Zhang

Most deep learning models for temporal regression directly output the estimation based on single input images, ignoring the relationships between different images. In this paper, we propose deep relation learning for regression, aiming to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Sheng He , Yanfang Feng , P. Ellen Grant , Yangming Ou