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Multi-Stage Feature Constraints Learning for Age Estimation

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夏珉 (Min Xia) *
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Xu Zhang
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Wanan Liu
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Liguo Weng
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Yiqing Xu
DOI:10.1109/TIFS.2020.2969552delete
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The biometric information contained in a face image is affected by many factors such as living environment, racial differences, and genetic diversity, this complexity leads to the nonstationary of the age estimation. In order to reduce the overlap of face features between adjacent ages and improve the accuracy of age prediction, a multi-stage feature constraints learning method is proposed for face age estimation. The proposed method gradually refines the feature through three feature constraint stages. In each stage, the algorithm continuously updates the feature center of its corresponding age range, and minimizes the distance between each age feature and feature center of the corresponding age range through feature constraint. Feature constraint makes the feature distances between different individuals in the same age feature space smaller and decrease the overlap areas between adjacent age range feature spaces. Meanwhile, the feature distance of different age range feature space is enlarged. The proposed network efficiently merges the features of three stages and optimizes the mapping of feature maps to an ordered binary comparison space. Experiments show that the proposed method is able to effectively improve the discrimination between different age features, and hence to improve the accuracy of face age estimation. In addition, the proposed algorithm is simple enough to achieve fast face age estimation.
Keywords:
Feature constraint
age estimation
ordered tag classification
deep neural network
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IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security cover
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