Few-Shot Personalized Age Estimation

Fuente: arXiv
Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Paplhám, Jakub, Franc, Vojtěch, Moroz, Artem
Format: Preprint
Published: 2026
Subjects:
Online Access:
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
_version_ 1866911581297704960
author Paplhám, Jakub
Franc, Vojtěch
Moroz, Artem
author_facet Paplhám, Jakub
Franc, Vojtěch
Moroz, Artem
contents Existing age estimation methods treat each face as an independent sample, learning a global mapping from appearance to age. This ignores a well-documented phenomenon: individuals age at different rates due to genetics, lifestyle, and health, making the mapping from face to age identity-dependent. When reference images of the same person with known ages are available, we can exploit this context to personalize the estimate. The only existing benchmark for this task (NIST FRVT) is closed-source and limited to a single reference image. In this work, we introduce OpenPAE, the first open benchmark for $N$-shot personalized age estimation with strict evaluation protocols. We establish a hierarchy of increasingly sophisticated baselines: from arithmetic offset, through closed-form Bayesian linear regression, to a conditional attentive neural process. Our experiments show that personalization consistently improves performance, that the gains are not merely domain adaptation, and that nonlinear methods significantly outperform simpler alternatives. We release all models, code, protocols, and evaluation splits.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2604_09125
institution arXiv
publishDate 2026
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle Few-Shot Personalized Age Estimation
Paplhám, Jakub
Franc, Vojtěch
Moroz, Artem
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Existing age estimation methods treat each face as an independent sample, learning a global mapping from appearance to age. This ignores a well-documented phenomenon: individuals age at different rates due to genetics, lifestyle, and health, making the mapping from face to age identity-dependent. When reference images of the same person with known ages are available, we can exploit this context to personalize the estimate. The only existing benchmark for this task (NIST FRVT) is closed-source and limited to a single reference image. In this work, we introduce OpenPAE, the first open benchmark for $N$-shot personalized age estimation with strict evaluation protocols. We establish a hierarchy of increasingly sophisticated baselines: from arithmetic offset, through closed-form Bayesian linear regression, to a conditional attentive neural process. Our experiments show that personalization consistently improves performance, that the gains are not merely domain adaptation, and that nonlinear methods significantly outperform simpler alternatives. We release all models, code, protocols, and evaluation splits.
title Few-Shot Personalized Age Estimation
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.09125