Age Automation Estimation Based on A ICA Coefficient Sparse Description Algorithm[J]. Journal of Image and Graphics, 2009, 14(10): 2102. DOI: 10.11834/jig.20091029.
Automatic age estimation based on facial images is an important research trend of face recognition. Here we proposed an independent component analysis method based on winner-take-all(WTA)rule to realize the age estimation task. Firstly
applying the PCA method to reduce the dimensions of original training data; then
using the proposed WTA-ICA coefficient sparse description method to extract the feature.Finally
the experimental results on the FG-NET Aging database indicate that the proposed method can estimate peoples age based on the face images well.