A Method for Automatic Synthesis of Aged Human Facial Images
Gandhi, Maulin R. · eScholarship@McGill (McGill) · 2004
Age changes cause major variations in the appearance of human faces. Due to many lifestyle factors, it is difficult to precisely predict how individuals may look with advancing years or how they looked with "retreating" years. In this thesis, a new automatic aging scheme is proposed. The method requires only one input image of a subject and produces an age progressed or age regressed image of the person at a target age. This thesis also presents a complete facial image normalization scheme, compensating an image for variability due to lighting effects, face pose and minor expressions. We also propose a new texture enhancement system to transfer geometric details from multiple surfaces onto a new surface. […]