We as human beings can estimate the age of a person based on his facial features but there are situations where there is a need for the computers to determine the age of a person based on the picture or photograph. Here comes the situation to teach a machine to determine the age group of a person with his picture. This is applicable in the fields like determining the age of a criminal with his picture or determining the age of a patient when he has undergone an accident and many other fields. To address this problem the paper proposed a technique of finding the age with Rank Based Edge Texture Unit (RETU). The uniqueness of this method is that it divides the age group into 7 classes i.e. the age groups are 1-10, 11-20, 21-30,31-0,41-50,51-60,>60 . With this method, the results cope up to 97.16% and to slightly increase the efficiency the present paper proposes to add Fuzzy Texton features.
Age Group Classification of Facial Images Using Rank Based Edge Texture Unit (RETU) and Fuzzy Texture