A Probabilistic Fusion Approach to human age prediction

Guodong Guo, Yun Fu, Charles R. Dyer, Thomas S. Huang

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Abstract

Human age prediction is useful for many applications. The age information could be used as a kind of semantic knowledge for multimedia content analysis and understanding. In this paper we propose a Probabilistic Fusion Approach (PFA) that produces a high performance estimator for human age prediction. The PFA framework fuses a re-gressor and a classifier. We derive the predictor based on Hayes' rule without the mutual independence assumption that is very common for traditional classifier combination methods. Using a sequential fusion strategy the predictor reduces age estimation errors significantly. Experiments on the large UIUC-IFP-Yaging database and the FG-NET aging database show the merit of the proposed approach to human age prediction.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication2008 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops, CVPR Workshops
DOIs
StatePublished - 2008
Event2008 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops, CVPR Workshops - Anchorage, AK, United States
Duration: Jun 23 2008Jun 28 2008

Publication series

Name2008 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops, CVPR Workshops

Other

Other2008 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops, CVPR Workshops
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityAnchorage, AK
Period6/23/086/28/08

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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