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Jinli Suo1, Song-Chun Zhu, Shiguang Shan

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Area of Science:

  • Computer Vision
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Machine Learning

Background:

  • Accurate face aging simulation and age estimation are challenging due to the complexity and variability of human aging.
  • Existing models often struggle to capture the intricate details and stochastic nature of the aging process.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To present a compositional and dynamic model for face aging simulation and prediction.
  • To develop an automatic age estimation algorithm based on the proposed representation.
  • To evaluate the model's performance in terms of age accuracy and identity preservation.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized a hierarchical And-Or graph to represent faces, decomposing them into age-relevant parts.
  • Modeled face aging as a Markov process on the graph's parse representation.
  • Learned dynamic model parameters from a large annotated face dataset, explicitly modeling aging stochasticity.

Main Results:

  • Developed a face aging simulation and prediction algorithm.
  • Developed an automatic age estimation algorithm.
  • Human perception experiments validated the accuracy of simulated aging and identity preservation.

Conclusions:

  • The proposed compositional and dynamic model effectively simulates and predicts face aging.
  • The model enables accurate automatic age estimation.
  • The approach demonstrates strong performance in both age simulation and identity preservation, validated by quantitative analysis.