Human Age Estimation Method Robust to Camera Sensor and/or Face Movement.
Human age can be employed in many useful real-life applications, such as customer service systems, automatic vending machines, entertainment, etc. In order to obtain age information, image-based age estimation systems have been developed using information from the human face. However, limitations exist for current age estimation systems because of the various factors of camera motion and optical blurring, facial expressions, gender, etc. Motion blurring can usually be presented on face images by the movement of the camera sensor and/or the movement of the face during image acquisition. Therefore, the facial feature in captured images can be transformed according to the amount of motion, which causes performance degradation of age estimation systems. In this paper, the problem caused by motion blurring is addressed and its solution is proposed in order to make age estimation systems robust to the effects of motion blurring. Experiment results show that our method is more efficient for enhancing age estimation performance compared with systems that do not employ our method.
Division of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Dongguk University, 30, Pildong-ro 1-gil, Jung-gu, Seoul 100-715, Korea. nguyentiendat@dongguk.edu.
Dat Tien
DT
Nguyen
Division of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Dongguk University, 30, Pildong-ro 1-gil, Jung-gu, Seoul 100-715, Korea. soracho@dongguk.edu.
So Ra
SR
Cho
Division of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Dongguk University, 30, Pildong-ro 1-gil, Jung-gu, Seoul 100-715, Korea. phamdanhtuyen@gmail.com.
Tuyen Danh
TD
Pham
Division of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Dongguk University, 30, Pildong-ro 1-gil, Jung-gu, Seoul 100-715, Korea. parkgr@dongguk.edu.
Kang Ryoung
KR
Park
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000465:Algorithms; D000886:Anthropometry / Q000379:methods*; D005145:Face / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009068:Movement; D055815:Young Adult
affective interface for entertainment; blurring effect of camera sensor; human age estimation