AgeNet: Deeply Learned Regressor and Classifier for Robust Apparent Age Estimation

Xin Liu, Shaoxin Li, Meina Kan, Jie Zhang, Shuzhe Wu, Wenxian Liu, Hu Han, Shiguang Shan, Xilin Chen; Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) Workshops, 2015, pp. 16-24

Abstract


Apparent age estimation from face image has attracted more and more attentions as it is favorable in some real-world applications. In this work, we propose an end-to-end learning approach for robust apparent age estimation, named by us AgeNet. Specifically, we address the apparent age estimation problem by fusing two kinds of models, i.e., real-value based regression models and Gaussian label distribution based classification models. For both kind of models, large-scale deep convolutional neural network is adopted to learn informative age representations. Another key feature of the proposed AgeNet is that, to avoid the problem of over-fitting on small apparent age training set, we exploit a general-to-specific transfer learning scheme. Technically, the AgeNet is first pre-trained on a large-scale web-collected face dataset with identity label, and then it is fine-tuned on a large-scale real age dataset with noisy age label. Finally, it is fine-tuned on a small training set with apparent age label. The experimental results on the ChaLearn 2015 Apparent Age Competition demonstrate that our AgeNet achieves the state-of-the-art performance in apparent age estimation.

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@InProceedings{Liu_2015_ICCV_Workshops,
author = {Liu, Xin and Li, Shaoxin and Kan, Meina and Zhang, Jie and Wu, Shuzhe and Liu, Wenxian and Han, Hu and Shan, Shiguang and Chen, Xilin},
title = {AgeNet: Deeply Learned Regressor and Classifier for Robust Apparent Age Estimation},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) Workshops},
month = {December},
year = {2015}
}