A method of age and gender estimation, comprising receiving an input image, detecting a facial image within the input image, estimating a head pose based on a set of facial image intensities of the facial image, Wherein the head pose is expressed as a yaw, a pitch and a roll, determining whether the yaw, the pitch and the roll of the head pose is less than a predetermined threshold, aligning the facial image if the yaw, the pitch and the roll of the head pose are less than the predetermined threshold and predicting an age and a gender of the aligned facial image.