Researchers hope to build universal human age estimator
Monday, December 5, 2011 - 09:31
in Biology & Nature
(PhysOrg.com) -- As humans, we have a knack for estimating another persons age quite accurately just by glancing at their face. Although age estimation may seem relatively simple to us, computers have a much more difficult time performing the task. In one of the latest attempts to build a computer that can accurately estimate a persons age, researchers have taken a bottom-up approach to the challenge, collecting hundreds of thousands of images and videos from the Internet to train the system. Their goal is to build a universal human age estimator that is applicable to all ethnic groups and various image qualities.