Age Estimation from Facial Images Using Custom Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)
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Artificial Neural Network, Computer Vison, Convolutional Neural Network, Facial Age ClassificationAbstract
Given that aging is influenced by a variety of factors, including gender, ethnicity, environment, and others, automatic age assessment of facial images is a difficult challenge in computer vision and image analysis. Additionally, a significant amount of data and a laborious training phase are needed to estimate age from facial photos with near accuracy. In this study, we present a custom convolutional neural network-based age estimator that can almost precisely predict age from facial photos. We use the UTK facial image dataset using about 17475 images. We train the model to group the facial images into three groups which are; Child, Teenager and Adult. Compared to similar efforts, our method uses less training data while maintaining a high accuracy of 95%.
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