A Call to Reflect on Evaluation Practices for Age Estimation: Comparative Analysis of the State-of-the-Art and a Unified Benchmark

Benchmark Model Rank Results
age-estimation-on-afadResNet-50-Unimodal-Concentrated#2MAE: 3.20
age-estimation-on-afadResNet-50-Regression#3MAE: 3.17
age-estimation-on-afadResNet-50-OR-CNN#4MAE: 3.16
age-estimation-on-afadResNet-50-Mean-Variance#5MAE: 3.16
age-estimation-on-afadResNet-50-DLDL-v2#6MAE: 3.15
age-estimation-on-afadResNet-50-Cross-Entropy#7MAE: 3.14
age-estimation-on-afadResNet-50-DLDL#8MAE: 3.14
age-estimation-on-afadResNet-50-SORD#9MAE: 3.14
age-estimation-on-afadFaRL+MLP#10MAE: 3.12
age-estimation-on-agedbFaRL+MLP#2MAE: 5.64
age-estimation-on-agedbResNet-50-OR-CNN#3MAE: 5.78
age-estimation-on-agedbResNet-50-DLDL#4MAE: 5.80
age-estimation-on-agedbResNet-50-DLDL-v2#5MAE: 5.80
age-estimation-on-agedbResNet-50-Cross-Entropy#6MAE: 5.81
age-estimation-on-agedbResNet-50-SORD#7MAE: 5.81
age-estimation-on-agedbResNet-50-Mean-Variance#8MAE: 5.85
age-estimation-on-agedbResNet-50-Unimodal-Concentrated#9MAE: 5.90
age-estimation-on-agedbResNet-50-Regression#10MAE: 6.23
age-estimation-on-cacdResNet-50-Cross-Entropy#2MAE: 3.96
age-estimation-on-cacdResNet-50-DLDL#3MAE: 3.96
age-estimation-on-cacdResNet-50-DLDL-v2#4MAE: 3.96
age-estimation-on-cacdResNet-50-SORD#5MAE: 3.96
age-estimation-on-cacdFaRL+MLP#6MAE: 3.96
age-estimation-on-cacdResNet-50-OR-CNN#7MAE: 4.01
age-estimation-on-cacdResNet-50-Regression#8MAE: 4.06
age-estimation-on-cacdResNet-50-Mean-Variance#9MAE: 4.07
age-estimation-on-cacdResNet-50-Unimodal-Concentrated#10MAE: 4.10
age-estimation-on-chalearn-2016FaRL+MLP#3MAE: 3.38
age-estimation-on-morph-album2-se-1ResNet-50-Unimodal-Concentrated#1MAE: 2.78
age-estimation-on-morph-album2-se-1ResNet-50-Cross-Entropy#2MAE: 2.81
age-estimation-on-morph-album2-se-1ResNet-50-DLDL#3MAE: 2.81
age-estimation-on-morph-album2-se-1ResNet-50-SORD#4MAE: 2.81
age-estimation-on-morph-album2-se-1ResNet-50-DLDL-v2#5MAE: 2.82
age-estimation-on-morph-album2-se-1ResNet-50-OR-CNN#6MAE: 2.83
age-estimation-on-morph-album2-se-1ResNet-50-Mean-Variance#7MAE: 2.83
age-estimation-on-morph-album2-se-1ResNet-50-Regression#8MAE: 2.83
age-estimation-on-morph-album2-se-1FaRL+MLP#9MAE: 3.04
age-estimation-on-utkfaceFaRL+MLP#2MAE: 3.87
age-estimation-on-utkfaceResNet-50-SORD#4MAE: 4.36
age-estimation-on-utkfaceResNet-50-Cross-Entropy#6MAE: 4.38
age-estimation-on-utkfaceResNet-50-DLDL#7MAE: 4.39
age-estimation-on-utkfaceResNet-50-OR-CNN#8MAE: 4.40
age-estimation-on-utkfaceResNet-50-DLDL-v2#9MAE: 4.42
age-estimation-on-utkfaceResNet-50-Mean-Variance#10MAE: 4.42
age-estimation-on-utkfaceResNet-50-Unimodal-Concentrated#11MAE: 4.47
age-estimation-on-utkfaceResNet-50-Regression#13MAE: 4.72