Photoanthropometric face iridial proportions for age estimation: An investigation using features selected via a joint mutual information criterion

被引:12
作者
Borges, Dibio L. [1 ]
Vidal, Flavio B. [1 ]
Flores, Marta R. P. [2 ]
Melani, Rodolfo F. H. [2 ]
Guimaraes, Marco A. [3 ]
Machado, Carlos E. P. [4 ]
机构
[1] Univ Brasilia, Dept Ciencia Comp, Brasilia, DF, Brazil
[2] Univ Sao Paulo, Fac Odontol, Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil
[3] Univ Sao Paulo, Dept Patol & Med Legal, CEMEL, Ribeirao Preto, SP, Brazil
[4] Policia Fed, Inst Nacl Criminalist, Brasilia, DF, Brazil
关键词
Photoanthropometry; Face iridial proportions; Age estimation; Information based feature selection; Frontal face images; IDENTIFICATION; GROWTH; IMAGES;
D O I
10.1016/j.forsciint.2017.12.011
中图分类号
DF [法律]; D9 [法律]; R [医药、卫生];
学科分类号
0301 ; 10 ;
摘要
Age assessment from images is of high interest in the forensic community because of the necessity to establish formal protocols to identify child pornography, child missing and abuses where visual evidences are the mostly admissible. Recently, photoanthropometric methods have been found useful for age estimation correlating facial proportions in image databases with samples of some age groups. Notwithstanding the advances, newer facial features and further analysis are needed to improve accuracy and establish larger applicability. In this investigation, frontal images of 1000 individuals (500 females, 500 males), equally distributed in five age groups (6, 10, 14, 18, 22 years old) were used in a 10 fold cross-validated experiment for three age thresholds classifications (<10, <14, <18 years old). A set of novel 40 features, based on a relation between landmark distances and the iris diameter, is proposed and joint mutual information is used to select the most relevant and complementary features for the classification task. In a civil image identification database with diverse ancestry, receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves were plotted to verify accuracy, and the resultant AUCs achieved 0.971, 0.969, and 0.903 for the age classifications (<10, <14, <18 years old), respectively. These results add support to continuing research in age assessment from images using the metric approach. Still, larger samples are necessary to evaluate reliability in extensive conditions. (c) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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