AGE ESTIMATION USING NEURAL NETWORKS BASED ON FACE IMAGES WITH STUDY OF DIFFERENT FEATURE EXTRACTION METHODS

Rajan Vishnu Parab, Meenal Suryakant Vatsaraj, D.S. Bade

Abstract


Facial age estimation recently becomes active research topic in pattern recognition. As there are vast potential application in age specific human computer interaction security control and surveillance monitoring. Insufficient and incomplete training data, uncontrollable environment, facial expression are the most prominent challenges in facial age estimation. Degree of accuracy for age estimation is obtained by forming appropriate feature vector of a facial image. Feature vectors are constructed from facial features. Therefore comparative study of feature extraction from facial image by bio inspired feature (BIF), histogram of gradient (HOG), Gabor filter, wavelet transform and scattering transform is done. The propose approach exploits scattering transform gives more information about features of the facial images. Well organized system consist scattering transform that disperse gabber coefficients pulling with smooth gaussian process in number of layers which isused to calculate for facial feature representation. These extracted features are classified using support vector machine and artificial neural network.


Keywords


artificial neural network (ANN); bio inspired feature (BIF); discrete wavelet transform (DWT); Gabor filter; histogram of gradient (HOG); principle component analysis (PCA); scattering transform (ST); support vector machine (SVM); wavelet transform (WT)

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DOI: 10.18510/ijsrtm.2017.526

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