Reverse facial ageing model for youthful appearance restoration from adult face images

Abstract

Dealing with a reliable face-ageing model has been an interesting topic with many envisioned applications such as those are related to investigation and forensics. Contrary to most previous works which deal with predictive face models, in this work, we propose a model that can estimate one's appearance in his youth down to it being in the age of 3-4 years. In this proposed approach, the youth face is estimated by mapping a reference face texture to an estimated geometrical model. This is demonstrated on a created database of 34 adult face images. We have then used two subjective and objective criteria to evaluate the results. The most promising results have been achieved which will be presented afterwards.