Work place: Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Kyung Hee University (Global Campus), Giheung-gu, Yongin-si, Gyeonggi-do, 17104, South Korea
E-mail: tauhidiq@khu.ac.kr
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Research Interests: Detection Theory, Pattern Recognition
Biography
Md Tauhid Bin Iqbal received his Bachelor degree in Information Technology from University of Dhaka in 2012. Currently he is pursuing MS-Ph.D. combined degree in Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Kyung Hee University, Yongin-si, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea. His current research interests include pattern recognition, object detection, expression recognition, combined age & gender recognition.
By Md Tauhid Bin Iqbal Oksam Chae
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijigsp.2018.07.01, Pub. Date: 8 Jul. 2018
Human age recognition from face image relies highly on a reasonable aging description. Considering the disparate and complex face-aging variation of each person, aging description needs to be defined carefully with detailed local information. However, aging description relies highly on the appropriate definition of different aging-affiliated textures. Wrinkles are considered as the most discernible textures in this regard owing to their significant visual appearance in human aging. Most of the existing image-descriptors, however, fail short to preserve diverse variations of wrinkles, such as a) characterizing stronger and smoother wrinkles, appropriately, b) distinguishing wrinkles from non-wrinkle patterns, and c) characterizing the proper texture-structures of the pixels belonging to the same wrinkle. In this paper, we address these issues by presenting a new local descriptor, Local Edge-Prototypic Pattern (LEPP) with the notion that LEPP preserves different variations of wrinkle-patterns appropriately in representing the aging description. In the coding, LEPP sets prototypic restrictions for each neighboring pixel using their relation with center pixel when they belong to an inlying-edge, and utilize such restrictions, afterwards, to prioritize specific neighbors showing significant edge-signature. This strategy appropriately encodes the inlying edge structure of aging-affiliated textures and simultaneously, avoids featureless texture. We visualize the stability of LEPP in terms of its robustness under noise. Our experiments show that LEPP preserves discernible aging variations yielding better accuracies than the state-of-the-art methods in popular age-group datasets.
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