Deeply-learned Hybrid Representations for Facial Age Estimation

Deeply-learned Hybrid Representations for Facial Age Estimation

Zichang Tan, Yang Yang, Jun Wan, Guodong Guo, Stan Z. Li

Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Main track. Pages 3548-3554. https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2019/492

In this paper, we propose a novel unified network named Deep Hybrid-Aligned Architecture for facial age estimation. It contains global, local and global-local branches. They are jointly optimized and thus can capture multiple types of features with complementary information. In each branch, we employ a separate loss for each sub-network to extract the independent features and use a recurrent fusion to explore correlations among those region features. Considering that the pose variations may lead to misalignment in different regions, we design an Aligned Region Pooling operation to generate aligned region features. Moreover, a new large age dataset named Web-FaceAge owning more than 120K samples is collected under diverse scenes and spanning a large age range. Experiments on five age benchmark datasets, including Web-FaceAge, Morph, FG-NET, CACD and Chalearn LAP 2015, show that the proposed method outperforms the state-of-the-art approaches significantly.
Keywords:
Machine Learning: Deep Learning
Computer Vision: Recognition: Detection, Categorization, Indexing, Matching, Retrieval, Semantic Interpretation
Computer Vision: Biometrics, Face and Gesture Recognition