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A Unified Framework for Biphasic Facial Age Translation With Noisy-Semantic Guided Generative Adversarial Networks |
Abstract | ||
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Biphasic facial age translation aims at predicting the appearance of the input face at any age. Facial age translation has received considerable research attention in the last decade due to its practical value in cross-age face recognition and various entertainment applications. However, most existing methods model age changes between holistic images, regardless of the human face structure and the age-changing patterns of individual facial components. Consequently, the lack of semantic supervision will cause infidelity of generated faces in detail. To this end, we propose a unified framework for biphasic facial age translation with noisy-semantic guided generative adversarial networks. Structurally, we project the class-aware noisy semantic layouts to "soft" latent maps for the following injection operation on the individual facial parts. In particular, we introduce two sub-networks, ProjectionNet and ConstraintNet. ProjectionNet introduces the low-level structural semantic information with noise map and produces "soft" latent maps. ConstraintNet disentangles the high-level spatial features to constrain the "soft" latent maps, which endows more age-related context into the "soft" latent maps. Specifically, attention mechanism is employed in ConstraintNet for feature disentanglement. Meanwhile, in order to mine the strongest mapping ability of the network, we embed two types of learning strategies in the training procedure, supervised self-driven generation and unsupervised condition-driven cycle-consistent generation. As a result, extensive experiments conducted on MORPH and CACD datasets demonstrate the prominent ability of our proposed method which achieves state-of-the-art performance. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2022 | 10.1109/TIFS.2022.3164187 | IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INFORMATION FORENSICS AND SECURITY |
Keywords | DocType | Volume |
Semantics, Faces, Face recognition, Training, Noise measurement, Layout, Image synthesis, Biphasic facial age translation, noisy semantic injection, generative adversarial network, attention mechanism, feature disentanglement | Journal | 17 |
ISSN | Citations | PageRank |
1556-6013 | 0 | 0.34 |
References | Authors | |
0 | 6 | |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Muyi Sun | 1 | 5 | 2.74 |
| Z. J. Wang | 2 | 897 | 89.61 |
| Jian Liu | 3 | 0 | 0.34 |
| Jianshu Li | 4 | 0 | 0.34 |
| Tao Chen | 5 | 0 | 0.34 |
| Zhenan Sun | 6 | 2379 | 139.49 |