Human age classification using appearance features and artificial neural network Online publication date: Thu, 02-Mar-2017
by Jayant Jagtap; Manesh Kokare
International Journal of Biometrics (IJBM), Vol. 8, No. 3/4, 2016
Abstract: This paper presents a novel method for human age classification via face images by a computer. The proposed method classifies the human face images into four age groups: child, young, adult and senior adult by using appearance features as ageing features and artificial neural network (ANN) as age classifier. The appearance features consist of both shape and textural features. Only two geometric ratios in combination with newly introduced rotation, scale and translation invariant efficient feature face angle are used as shape features. Local binary pattern histogram (LBPH) of regions of interest in face images are used as textural features. The ANN is designed by using two layer feedforward backpropagation neural networks. The performance of proposed age classification system is evaluated on face images from FG-NET ageing database and achieved greatly improved accuracy of 91.09% and 88.18% for male and female, respectively.
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