Age estimation using facial expression dynamics

Age estimation from face images traditionally focuses on appearance features. In this paper, we evaluate a number of recently proposed spatio-temporal features for the problem of age estimation from face videos. It is shown that temporal features based on movement dynamics of facial landmarks during a smile expression can improve age estimation over using only appearance-based features.

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