The two underlying requirements of face age progression, i.e. aging accuracy and identity permanence, are not well handled in the literature. In this paper, we present a novel generative adversarial network based approach. It separately models the constraints for the intrinsic subject-specific characteristics and the age-specific facial changes with respect to the elapsed time, ensuring that the generated faces present desired aging effects while simultaneously keeping personalized properties stable. Further, to generate more lifelike facial details, high-level age-specific features conveyed by the synthesized face are estimated by a pyramidal adversarial discriminator at multiple scales, which simulates the aging effects in a finer manner. The proposed method is applicable for diverse face samples in the presence of variations in pose, expression, makeup, etc., and remarkably vivid aging effects are achieved. Both visual fidelity and quantitative evaluations show that the approach advances the state-of-the-art.

本文提出了一种基于生成对抗网络的面部年龄进展方法，通过对内在个体特征和随时间推移发生的年龄特异性面部变化的约束的分别建模，生成的面部在呈现期望的老化效果的同时保持个性化属性的稳定性。

学习人脸年龄进展: 一种GAN金字塔架构