Distribution Cognisant Loss for Cross-Database Facial Age Estimation With Sensitivity Analysis

Existing facial age estimation studies have mostly focused on intra-database protocols that assume training and test images are captured under similar conditions. This is rarely valid in practical applications, where we typically encounter training and test sets with different characteristics. In th...

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Veröffentlicht in:IEEE transactions on pattern analysis and machine intelligence. - 1979. - 44(2022), 4 vom: 07. Apr., Seite 1869-1887
1. Verfasser: Akbari, Ali (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Awais, Muhammad, Feng, Zhen-Hua, Farooq, Ammarah, Kittler, Josef
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2022
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:IEEE transactions on pattern analysis and machine intelligence
Schlagworte:Journal Article Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
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520 |a Existing facial age estimation studies have mostly focused on intra-database protocols that assume training and test images are captured under similar conditions. This is rarely valid in practical applications, where we typically encounter training and test sets with different characteristics. In this article, we deal with such situations, namely subjective-exclusive cross-database age estimation. We formulate the age estimation problem as the distribution learning framework, where the age labels are encoded as a probability distribution. To improve the cross-database age estimation performance, we propose a new loss function which provides a more robust measure of the difference between ground-truth and predicted distributions. The desirable properties of the proposed loss function are theoretically analysed and compared with the state-of-the-art approaches. In addition, we compile a new balanced large-scale age estimation database. Last, we introduce a novel evaluation protocol, called subject-exclusive cross-database age estimation protocol, which provides meaningful information of a method in terms of the generalisation capability. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed approach outperforms the state-of-the-art age estimation methods under both intra-database and subject-exclusive cross-database evaluation protocols. In addition, in this article, we provide a comparative sensitivity analysis of various algorithms to identify trends and issues inherent to their performance. This analysis introduces some open problems to the community which might be considered when designing a robust age estimation system 
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