Age Estimation by Refining Label Distribution in Deep CNN

  • Wanxia Shen
  • , Li Sun*
  • , Song Qiu
  • , Qingli Li
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

This paper proposes an age estimation algorithm by refining the label distribution in a deep learning framework. There are two tasks during the training period of our algorithm. The first one finds the optimal parameters of supervised deep CNN by given the label distribution of the training sample as the ground truth, while the second one estimates the variances of label distribution to fit the output of the CNN. These two tasks are performed alternatively and both of them are treated as the supervised learning tasks. The AlexNet and ResNet-50 architectures are adopted as the classifiers and the Gaussian form of the label distribution is assumed. Experiments show that the accuracy of age estimation can be improved by refining label distribution.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationBiometric Recognition - 12th Chinese Conference, CCBR 2017, Proceedings
EditorsYunhong Wang, Yu Qiao, Jie Zhou, Jianjiang Feng, Zhenan Sun, Zhenhua Guo, Shiguang Shan, Linlin Shen, Shiqi Yu, Yong Xu
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages86-96
Number of pages11
ISBN (Print)9783319699226
DOIs
StatePublished - 2017
Event12th Chinese Conference on Biometric Recognition, CCBR 2017 - Beijing, China
Duration: 28 Oct 201729 Oct 2017

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume10568 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference12th Chinese Conference on Biometric Recognition, CCBR 2017
Country/TerritoryChina
CityBeijing
Period28/10/1729/10/17

Keywords

  • Age estimation
  • CNN
  • Label distribution

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