A SEMINAR ON

Human Age Estimation Using Hierarchical

Approach

Presented by :

Under Guidance of :

Payal R. Hadke
Sakshi S. Goenka
Prashant S. Dhote

Prof. Mrs. M. S. Nimbarte

Department of Computer
Engineering

VII SEM [B]

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* Domain Introduction
* Introduction to title
* Issues
* System Design
* Literature Review
* Flow Graph
* Steps Involved
* Applications
* Platform
* Software Utilization
* References

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*An image processing operation typically defines a new image g in
terms of an existing image f.

*Image processing basically includes three steps:

Importing the image
Analysing and manipulating the image
Output

*Purpose of Image processing

Visualization
Image sharpening
Image retrieval

*Applications

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*Simulation and recognition of faces as one ages has recently been
gaining popularity as a topic in biometrics literature

*Used for solving scientific problem and also sub problem where
claimed id and enrolled id differs

*How structure and how appearance vary over age helps to find age.
*Age estimation is generally formulated as regression problem

between features extracted from face image and the age variable.

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* Previous methods require manual separation of males &
females prior to age estimation

*Automatic age estimation on aging patterns- always insufficient

data for learning hence inefficient output

*No clear relation yet between age estimation & facial

expression changes

*Generally age estimation problem is solved by using a single

regression model which is not effective

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*In this system we use hierarchical approach in which we learn
a separate regression model for each age group

*In this system we are considering

problem of automatic age

estimation

*First classify Given a test image in the appropriate age group

*Then we learn a separate regression model for each age
group.

*Hierarchical approach provides much better age estimation

results than using a single regression model for all ages.

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Sr.
No.

Year

Author

Description

2012

Pavleen thukral
Kaushik mitra
And rama
chellappa

Author proposed hierarchical approach for

human age estimation

2009

Hutton et al

Author proposed a Dense surface point

distribution model for expressing the shape
Changes associated with growth and aging

2006

Scandrett et al

Author constructed a statistical model

In which historical, familial, and average
growth tendencies of a peer
Group can be incorporated

2006

Ramanathan and
chellappa

Authors proposed a method for face

verification across age based on a bayesian
classifier.

2007

Zana et al

Proposed a face verification algorithm in

polar frequency domain which is robust
against aging variation

Feature Extraction

Learning Regression Model

CLASSIFICATION

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I.

Feature Extraction:

Transforming the input data into the set of features is called

feature extraction.
The features set will extract the relevant information
from the input data.
Desired task can be performed with this reduced
representation.

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I.

Feature Extraction:

We extract geometric
features from the face
image.
These features are based
on the landmark 2D
points.
They can be reliably
located on the most faces.

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II. Learning Regression Model :
Regression analysis is a statistical process for estimating
the relationships among the features extracted.

We learn a separate RVM regression model for each age

group.

The relevance vector machine (RVM) is a bayesian sparse

technique for regression and classification

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III. Classification Into One Of The Age Groups:

Automatic classification of the test subject into one of

the age groups using multiple classifiers.

We use following classifiers:

Partial least squares(PLS)

Nearest neighbour
Naive bayes
Fisher linear discriminant

Majority

rule is used to obtain the final classification.

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*Parental control
*Forensic Art & Police-suspect/victim and lost person
identification

*Electronic Customer Relationship Management

*Security Control and Surveillance Monitoring
*Entertainment

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*Front End : MATLAB 2013

*Back End : MY SQL 4.0

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*OS

Windows 7 and Higher

*Compiler
MATLAB
MY SQL

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* P .Turaga, S .Biswas, and R. Chellappa, The role of geometry for age estimation,
in ICASSP,2010.

* G. Guo, Y. Fu, C. R. Dyer, and T. S. Huang, Image based human age estimation by
manifold learning and locally adjusted robust regression, IEEE TIP,2008.

* A. Lanitis, C.J. Taylor, Toward aotomatic stimulation of aging effects on face

images, IEEE TPAMI,2002.

N. Ramanathan, R. Chellappa, and S. Biswas, Computational methods for

modeling facial aging: A survey,Journal of Visual Languages and Computing, vol.
20,June 2009

* P. Turaga, S. Biswas, and R. Chellappa, The role of geometry for age estimation,
inICASSP, 2010

* B. Scholkopf, A. J. Smola, R. C. Williamson, and P. L.Bartlett, New support vector

algorithms,Neural Computation, 2000.

* G. Guo, Y. Fu, C. R. Dyer, and T. S. Huang, Imagebased human age estimation by

manifold learning and locally adjusted robust regression, IEEE TIP, 2008.

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