A framework for facial age progression and regression using exemplar face templates
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Techniques for facial age progression and regression have many applications and a myriad of challenges. As such, automatic aged or de-aged face generation has become an important subject of study in recent times. Over the past decade or so, researchers have been working on developing face processing mechanisms to tackle the challenge of generating realistic aged faces for applications related to smart systems. In this paper, we propose a novel approach to try and address this problem. We use template faces based on the formulation of an average face of a given ethnicity and for a given age. Thus, given a face image, the target aged image for that face is generated by applying it to the relevant template face image. The resulting image is controlled by two parameters corresponding to the texture and the shape of the face. To validate our approach, we compute the similarity between aged images and the corresponding ground truth via face recognition. To do this, we have utilised a pre-trained convolutional neural network based on the VGG-face model for feature extraction, and we then use well-known classifiers to compare the features. We have utilised two datasets, namely the FEI and the Morph II, to test, verify and validate our approach. Our experimental results do suggest that the proposed approach achieves accuracy, efficiency and possess flexibility when it comes to facial age progression or regression.Version
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Elmahmudi AAM and Ugail H (2020) A framework for facial age progression and regression using exemplar face templates. Visual Computer. 37: 2023-2038.Link to Version of Record
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00371-020-01960-zType
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https://doi.org/10.1007/s00371-020-01960-z