Multimodal face aging framework via learning disentangled representation

Lu Liu, Shenghui Wang, Lili Wan, Haibo Yu

Abstract: Existing face aging (FA) approaches usually concentrate on a universal aging pattern, and produce restricted aging faces from one-to-one mapping. However, the diversity of living environments impact individuals differently in their oldness. To simulate various aging effects, we propose a multimodal FA framework based on face disentanglement technique of age-specific and age-irrelevant information. A Variational Autoencoder (VAE)-based encoder is designed to represent the distribution of the age-specific attributes. To capture the age-irrelevant features, a cycle-consistency loss of unpaired faces is utilized among various age spans. The extensive experimental results demonstrate that the sampled age-specific codes along with an age-irrelevant feature make the multimodal FA diverse and realistic.