Applying Artificial Intelligence for Age Estimation in Digital Forensic Investigations

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2201.03045v1
• Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2022 16:25:37 GMT
• Title: Applying Artificial Intelligence for Age Estimation in Digital Forensic Investigations
• Authors: Thomas Grubl, Harjinder Singh Lallie
• Abstract summary: Investigators often need to determine the age of victims by looking at images and interpreting the sexual development stages and other human characteristics. This paper evaluates existing facial image datasets and proposes a new dataset tailored to the needs of similar digital forensic research contributions. The new dataset is tested on the Deep EXpectation (DEX) algorithm pre-trained on the IMDB-WIKI dataset.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: The precise age estimation of child sexual abuse and exploitation (CSAE) victims is one of the most significant digital forensic challenges. Investigators often need to determine the age of victims by looking at images and interpreting the sexual development stages and other human characteristics. The main priority - safeguarding children -- is often negatively impacted by a huge forensic backlog, cognitive bias and the immense psychological stress that this work can entail. This paper evaluates existing facial image datasets and proposes a new dataset tailored to the needs of similar digital forensic research contributions. This small, diverse dataset of 0 to 20-year-old individuals contains 245 images and is merged with 82 unique images from the FG-NET dataset, thus achieving a total of 327 images with high image diversity and low age range density. The new dataset is tested on the Deep EXpectation (DEX) algorithm pre-trained on the IMDB-WIKI dataset. The overall results for young adolescents aged 10 to 15 and older adolescents/adults aged 16 to 20 are very encouraging -- achieving MAEs as low as 1.79, but also suggest that the accuracy for children aged 0 to 10 needs further work. In order to determine the efficacy of the prototype, valuable input of four digital forensic experts, including two forensic investigators, has been taken into account to improve age estimation results. Further research is required to extend datasets both concerning image density and the equal distribution of factors such as gender and racial diversity.

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