A Robust Human Characteristic Estimation under Varying Facial Pose for Human Interface and Interaction

2008 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 19700185
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Research Field: Perception information processing/Intelligent robotics
• Research Institution: Sasebo National College of Technology
• Principal Investigator: TAKIMOTO Hironori Sasebo National College of Technology, 電子制御工学科, 助教 (10413874)
• Project Period (FY): 2007 – 2008
• Keywords: 顔画像処理 / 人物属性推定 / 性別年齢推定 / 外観年齢 / ARSM

Research Abstract

我々は、開発した人物属性推定システムを用いて性差や経年変化などの人物属性という観点からの顔の左右対称性について検証を行った。結果として、カメラ正面に対して水平方向に45°程度、垂直方向に30°程度顔が傾いていた場合でも、性別推定・年齢推定ともに人間と同等程度の推定精度が得られることを確認した。また、人の人物属性認知メカニズムに着目し、人が潜在的に用いている顔領域における属性特徴(特に年齢特徴)を決定し、その有効性を確認した。

Research Products

• [Journal Article] 顔特徴が人の年齢認知に及ぼす影響の解析 (2009)
  • Author(s): 滝本裕則,桑野翼,深井寛修,満倉靖恵,福見稔
  • Journal Title: 佐世保工業高等専門学校研究報告 Pages: 33-40
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Apparent AgeFeature Extraction by Empirical Mode Decomposition (2008)
  • Author(s): H. Fukai, H. Takimoto, Y. Mitsukura, T. Tanaka, M. Fukumi
  • Journal Title: Journal of Signal Processing Vol.12, No.6 Pages: 457-463
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] A Robust Gender and Age Estimation under Varying Facial Pose (2008)
  • Author(s): H. Takimoto, Y. Mitsukura, M. Fukumi, N. Akamatsu
  • Journal Title: Journal of Electronics and Communications in Japan Vol.91, No.7 Pages: 32-40
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] 姿勢変動に影響されない顔画像からの性別年齢推定 (2007)
  • Author(s): 滝本裕則,満倉靖恵,福見稔,赤松則男
  • Journal Title: 電気学会論文誌C Vol.127-C, No.7 Pages: 1022-1029
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Presentation] 顔画像からの見かけ年齢特徴抽出に関する一考察 (2008)
  • Author(s): 滝本裕則,深井寛修,満倉靖恵,福見稔
  • Organizer: 第18回インテリジェント・システム・シンポジウム
  • Place of Presentation: 広島(JAPAN)
  • Year and Date: 20081000
• [Presentation] Feature Extraction System for Age Estimation (2008)
  • Author(s): H. Fukai, H. Takimoto, Y. Mitsukura, and M. Fukumi
  • Organizer: 12th Internati- zonal Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems
  • Place of Presentation: Zagreb (Croatia)
  • Year and Date: 20080900
• [Presentation] Apparent Age Feature Extraction by Empirical Mode Decomposition (2008)
  • Author(s): H. Fukai, H. Takimoto, Y. Mitsukura, T. Tanaka, and M. Fukumi
  • Organizer: 2008 RISP International Workshop on Nonlinear Circuits and Signal Processing
  • Place of Presentation: Gold Coast (Australia)
  • Year and Date: 20080300
• [Presentation] An Analysis of the Influence of Facial Feature on Age Perception (2008)
  • Author(s): H. Takimoto, T. Kuwano, H. Fukai, Y. Mitsukura and, M. Fukumi
  • Organizer: 2008 RISP International Workshop on Nonlinear Circuits and Signal Processing
  • Place of Presentation: Gold Coast (Australia)
  • Year and Date: 20080300
• [Presentation] Apparent Age Estimation System Based on Age Perception (2007)
  • Author(s): H. Fukai, H. Takimoto, Y. Mitsukura, and M. Fukumi
  • Organizer: SICE Annual Conference 2007
  • Place of Presentation: Kagawa (JAPAN)
  • Year and Date: 20070900
• [Presentation] Appearance-age feature extraction from facial image based on age perception (2007)
  • Author(s): H. Takimoto, T. Kuwano, Y. Mitsukura, H. Fukai, and M. Fukumi
  • Organizer: SICE Annual Conference 2007
  • Place of Presentation: Kagawa (JAPAN)
  • Year and Date: 20070900