Age invariant face recognition using graph matching

In this paper, we present a graph based face representation for efficient age invariant face recognition. The graph contains information on the appearance and geometry of facial feature points. An age model is learned for each individual and a graph space is built using the set of feature descriptors extracted from each face image. A two-stage method for matching is developed, where the first stage involves a Maximum a Posteriori solution based on PCA factorization to efficiently prune the search space and select very few candidate model sets. A simple deterministic algorithm which exploits the topology of the graphs is used for matching in the second stage. The experimental results on the FGnet database show that the proposed method is robust to age variations and provides better performance than existing techniques.

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