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Our proposed work is based on a binary classifier that only determines whether two input images are clustered in a similar class and trains a convolutional neural network (CNN) model using the deep metric learning method based on the Siamese network. To converge the results of the training Siamese network, two classes, for which age differences are below a certain level of distance, are considered as the same class, so the ratio of positive database images is increased. The deep metric learning method trains the CNN model to measure similarity based only on age data, but we found that the accumulated gender data can also be used to compare ages. Thus, we adopted a multi-task learning approach to consider the gender data for more accurate age estimation. In the experiment, we evaluated our approach using MORPH and MegaAge-Asian datasets, and compared gender classification accuracy only using age data from the training images. In addition, using gender classification, our proposed architecture, which is trained with only age data, performs age comparison using the self-generated gender feature. The accuracy enhancement by multi-task learning, i.e. simultaneously considering age and gender data, is discussed. Our approach results in the best accuracy among the methods based on deep metric learning on MORPH dataset. Additionally, our method has better results than the state of the art in terms of age estimation on MegaAge-Asian and MORPH datasets.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/sym10090385","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2018,9,6]],"date-time":"2018-09-06T10:38:38Z","timestamp":1536230318000},"page":"385","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":17,"title":["Accurate Age Estimation Using Multi-Task Siamese Network-Based Deep Metric Learning for Frontal Face Images"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"10","author":[{"given":"Yoosoo","family":"Jeong","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electronics Engineering, Kyungpook National University, Daegu 41566, Korea"}]},{"given":"Seungmin","family":"Lee","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electronics Engineering, Kyungpook National University, Daegu 41566, Korea"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5560-873X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Daejin","family":"Park","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electronics Engineering, Kyungpook National University, Daegu 41566, Korea"}]},{"given":"Kil Houm","family":"Park","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electronics Engineering, Kyungpook National University, Daegu 41566, Korea"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2018,9,6]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Ling, H., Soatto, S., Ramanathan, N., and Jacobs, D.W. 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