How Do Facial Expressions Contribute to Age Prediction?

Abstract

Human age estimation based on facial images has many potential applications in practice. However, the current age estimation techniques are not matured. Most studies focus only on neutral faces, that is, expressionless faces. Several expressions such as happy expression, may help to improve the prediction accuracy. Recently, some works reported that expressions could badly impact on the accuracy. In this paper, we investigated the degree of facial expression impact on age prediction subjectively and objectively. It was revealed that expressions do not contribute for age prediction so much.