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Variability in aging caused by genetics, environment, and image quality challenges reliable prediction into age brackets. The project develops a genetic programming approach to learn a regression model for age ranges, leveraging GP’s symbolic nature for interpretability. Results compare accuracy with existing methods and provide analysis of why selected facial regions influence predictions.","Machine Learning for Interpretable Age Estimation  \nJulius Rieser  \nAbstract—Age estimation from facial images has been growing as a machine learning topic as it has many real-world applications. It can help with security control for minors, humancomputer interaction based on age, and law enforcement concerning identity. These various problems could be solved by building and understanding a machine learning model that labels a facial image into an age range. This comes with its fair share of issues such as people ageing differently due to genetics, the environment, or the facial photo quality. The overall goal of this project is to develop a new genetic programming (GP) method to learn a regression model for age brackets estimation. The method will take advantage of the ability of GP to produce interpretable models and provide further insight into factors and contributors that lead to age prediction. The results of this project include how accurate the GP is in estimating a person’s age compared to existing solutions, and a deep analysis on why the GP chose certain regions over others and how those regions contributed to the final age estimation.  \nI. INTRODUCTION  \nTHIS project aims to understand facial ageing patterns  \nthrough machine learning. This is done by using GP and interpreting the model produced through various graphsand tables to see which facial features contributed to what part of the estimated age calculation. Through understanding this model, various conclusions and comparisons with existing papers on facial ageing patterns will be discussed to see how this model fares against proven research in this field.  \nA. Motivation  \nAgeing has been a process which most living beings are subject to. Humans, which are subject to ageing try to make the most of their limited time doing the things they love. But as time passes changes occur to the body internally and externally. These changes affect what humans can and can’t do. Internal changes are not obvious to other people as they cannot perceive them, but external changes become apparent. These apparent changes are what this project focuses on as they allow humans to roughly estimate someone’s age based on their facial features and this project aims to achieve something similar.  \nThe main goal of this project is to use machine learning to interpret age estimation. This means creating and understanding the factors and contributors that lead to facial ageing. This information could be used in hopes of solving sustainability problems such as security control for minors, human-computer interaction based on age, and law enforcement concerning identity. Each one of these problems can cause issues todo with age fraud which could be dangerous for the parties involved due to legal rights. These are attempted to be solved by building and understanding a machine learning model that  \nThis project was supervised by Qi Chen (primary), and Bing Xue  \nlabels a facial image into an appropriate age range that a person could fall in.  \nThe motivation behind this project is to be able to interpret which features lead to age estimation as current deep-learning methods for age estimation are usually black boxes. It is difficult to understand how the estimation comes about with standard methods involving neural networks, but with the symbolic nature of GP, it is possible to obtain some interpretable age estimation models.  \nAs age has been the standard for determining how old a person is, naturally lots of research has been done on what causes ageing and its effects on the human body [1] . Even without reading these research papers children from a young age learn to understand how old a person is just by looking at their face. According to computer vision anything that humans perceive and understand a computer should be able to be trained to understand what humans understand or even go beyond human comprehension abilities. 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