TY - JOUR
T1 - Face aging with pixel-level alignment GAN
AU - Wu, Xing
AU - Zhang, Yafei
AU - Li, Qing
AU - Qi, Yangyang
AU - Wang, Jianjia
AU - Guo, Yike
N1 - Funding Information:
This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 62172267), the National Key R&D Program of China (Grant No. 2019YFE0190500), the Natural Science Foundation of Shanghai, China (Grant No. 20ZR1420400), the State Key Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 61936001).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature
PY - 2022/10
Y1 - 2022/10
N2 - Face aging is of great significance in cross-time identity verification problem. However, there is still a huge gap between the synthesized face image and the real face in terms of quality and consistency due to identity ambiguity and image distortion caused by existing face aging methods. To meet this challenge, we propose a face aging framework named as Pixel-level Alignment GAN, PAGAN, to synthesize faces of different age groups. Face images are featured by age, identity, and fine-grained pixel-value to ensure the quality, which is a typical multi-task learning problem. The proposed face aging framework with PAGAN is a combination of age estimation, identity preservation, and image de-noising. Extensive experiments demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms state-of-the-art methods not only in the accuracy of age classification but also in the image quality. With the proposed PAGAN, the face recognition accuracy with synthesized images has increased 0.21% and the image quality rating has increased around 5%, which proves the effectiveness and validity of proposed method.
AB - Face aging is of great significance in cross-time identity verification problem. However, there is still a huge gap between the synthesized face image and the real face in terms of quality and consistency due to identity ambiguity and image distortion caused by existing face aging methods. To meet this challenge, we propose a face aging framework named as Pixel-level Alignment GAN, PAGAN, to synthesize faces of different age groups. Face images are featured by age, identity, and fine-grained pixel-value to ensure the quality, which is a typical multi-task learning problem. The proposed face aging framework with PAGAN is a combination of age estimation, identity preservation, and image de-noising. Extensive experiments demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms state-of-the-art methods not only in the accuracy of age classification but also in the image quality. With the proposed PAGAN, the face recognition accuracy with synthesized images has increased 0.21% and the image quality rating has increased around 5%, which proves the effectiveness and validity of proposed method.
KW - Face aging
KW - Generative adversarial networks
KW - Multi-view learning
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U2 - 10.1007/s10489-022-03541-0
DO - 10.1007/s10489-022-03541-0
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85129498513
SN - 0924-669X
VL - 52
SP - 14665
EP - 14678
JO - Applied Intelligence
JF - Applied Intelligence
IS - 13
ER -