Fusion network for face-based age estimation

Haoyi Wang, Xingjie Wei, Victor Sanchez, Chang Tsun Li

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Abstract

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) have been applied to age-related research as the core framework. Although faces are composed of numerous facial attributes, most works with CNNs still consider a face as a typical object and do not pay enough attention to facial regions that carry age-specific feature for this particular task. In this paper, we propose a novel CNN architecture called Fusion Network (Fusion-Net) to tackle the age estimation problem. Apart from the whole face image, the FusionNet successively takes several age-specific facial patches as part of the input to emphasize the age-specific features. Through experiments, we show that the FusionNet significantly outperforms other state-of-the-art models on the MORPH II benchmark.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2018 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2018 - Proceedings
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages2675-2679
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9781479970612
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 29 Aug 2018
Event25th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2018 - Athens, Greece
Duration: 7 Oct 201810 Oct 2018

Publication series

NameProceedings - International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP
ISSN (Print)1522-4880

Conference

Conference25th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2018
Country/TerritoryGreece
CityAthens
Period7/10/1810/10/18

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Signal Processing

Keywords

  • Age Estimation
  • Convolutional Neural Network
  • Feature Extraction
  • Soft Biometrics

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