Improving Face-Based Age Estimation With Attention-Based Dynamic Patch Fusion

• Published in: IEEE transactions on image processing Vol. 31; pp. 1084 - 1096
• Main Authors: Wang, Haoyi, Sanchez, Victor, Li, Chang-Tsun
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States IEEE 2022; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Age; Age estimation; Artificial neural networks; attention mechanism; Chronology; Convolutional neural networks; Estimation; Face - diagnostic imaging; Faces; Facial features; Feature extraction; feature fusion; Neural Networks, Computer; Patches (structures); Task analysis; Training

With the increasing popularity of convolutional neural networks (CNNs), recent works on face-based age estimation employ these networks as the backbone. However, state-of-the-art CNN-based methods treat each facial region equally, thus entirely ignoring the importance of some facial patches that may...