Illumination-Aware Age Progression

• Published in: 2014 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition pp. 3334 - 3341
• Main Authors: Kemelmacher-Shlizerman, Ira, Suwajanakorn, Supasorn, Seitz, Steven M.
• Format: Conference Proceeding Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.06.2014
• Subjects: Age; Aging; Alignment; Artificial intelligence; automatic; Computer vision; faces; Illumination; Lighting; Nose; optical flow; Pattern recognition; progression; Progressions; Shape; Subspaces; synthesis; Texture
• ISSN: 1063-6919; 1063-6919; 2575-7075
• DOI: 10.1109/CVPR.2014.426

We present an approach that takes a single photograph of a child as input and automatically produces a series of age-progressed outputs between 1 and 80 years of age, accounting for pose, expression, and illumination. Leveraging thousands of photos of children and adults at many ages from the Internet, we first show how to compute average image subspaces that are pixel-to-pixel aligned and model variable lighting. These averages depict a prototype man and woman aging from 0 to 80, under any desired illumination, and capture the differences in shape and texture between ages. Applying these differences to a new photo yields an age progressed result. Contributions include relightable age subspaces, a novel technique for subspace-to-subspace alignment, and the most extensive evaluation of age progression techniques in the literature.