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    Area of Science:

    • Computer Vision
    • Biometrics
    • Machine Learning

    Background:

    • Facial age estimation traditionally relies on static appearance features.
    • Existing methods often struggle with accuracy and robustness across diverse populations and expressions.
    • Leveraging dynamic facial information offers a promising avenue for improved age estimation.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To develop and evaluate a novel method for facial age estimation using dynamic features from smiles.
    • To assess the impact of incorporating dynamic features on state-of-the-art appearance-based age estimation techniques.
    • To introduce a new hierarchical architecture for age estimation and explore spontaneous versus posed expressions.

    Main Methods:

    • Extraction and utilization of dynamic facial features, particularly from smiles.
    • Implementation of baseline appearance-based age estimation methods.
    • Development of a hierarchical age estimation architecture with adaptive age grouping.
    • Testing on large, gender-balanced databases including spontaneous and posed expressions.

    Main Results:

    • The addition of dynamic features led to statistically significant improvements in age estimation accuracy for all baseline methods.
    • The proposed approach, utilizing spontaneity information, reduced the mean absolute error by up to 21%.
    • Evaluation on a new database of disgust expressions demonstrated the approach's reliability with different facial expressions.

    Conclusions:

    • Dynamic facial features, especially from smiles, are crucial for accurate age estimation.
    • The proposed method advances the state of the art in facial age estimation by integrating appearance and dynamic information.
    • The hierarchical architecture and analysis of expression spontaneity offer further improvements and insights.