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Face aging or de-aging with generative AI has gained significant attention for its applications in such fields like forensics, security, and media. However, most state of the art methods rely on conditional Generative Adversarial Networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Luis S. Luevano , Pavel Korshunov , Sebastien Marcel

A lifespan face synthesis (LFS) model aims to generate a set of photo-realistic face images of a person's whole life, given only one snapshot as reference. The generated face image given a target age code is expected to be age-sensitive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-16 Sen He , Wentong Liao , Michael Ying Yang , Yi-Zhe Song , Bodo Rosenhahn , Tao Xiang

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Muyi Sun , Jian Wang , Yunfan Liu , Qi Li , Zhenan Sun

Since it is difficult to collect face images of the same subject over a long range of age span, most existing face aging methods resort to unpaired datasets to learn age mappings. However, the matching ambiguity between young and aged face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Yunfan Liu , Qi Li , Zhenan Sun

Generally, facial age variations affect gender classification accuracy significantly, because facial shape and skin texture change as they grow old. This requires re-examination on the gender classification system to consider facial age…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-10 Jun Beom Kho

The two underlying requirements of face age progression, i.e. aging accuracy and identity permanence, are not well studied in the literature. This paper presents a novel generative adversarial network based approach to address the issues in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Hongyu Yang , Di Huang , Yunhong Wang , Anil K. Jain

Image set recognition has been widely applied in many practical problems like real-time video retrieval and image caption tasks. Due to its superior performance, it has grown into a significant topic in recent years. However, images with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Chuan-Xian Ren , You-Wei Luo , Xiao-Lin Xu , Dao-Qing Dai , Hong Yan

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) enhances the outputs of language models by integrating relevant information retrieved from external knowledge sources. However, when the retrieval process involves private data, RAG systems may face…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Shenglai Zeng , Jiankun Zhang , Pengfei He , Jie Ren , Tianqi Zheng , Hanqing Lu , Han Xu , Hui Liu , Yue Xing , Jiliang Tang

In recent years, conditional image synthesis has attracted growing attention due to its controllability in the image generation process. Although recent works have achieved realistic results, most of them have difficulty handling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Yueming Lyu , Peibin Chen , Jingna Sun , Bo Peng , Xu Wang , Jing Dong

Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD) is an asymptomatic retinal disease which may result in loss of vision. There is limited access to high-quality relevant retinal images and poor understanding of the features defining sub-classes of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-13 Yi-Chieh Liu , Hao-Hsiang Yang , Chao-Han Huck Yang , Jia-Hong Huang , Meng Tian , Hiromasa Morikawa , Yi-Chang James Tsai , Jesper Tegner

Age progression/regression is a challenging task due to the complicated and non-linear transformation in human aging process. Many researches have shown that both global and local facial features are essential for face representation, but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-26 Peipei Li , Yibo Hu , Qi Li , Ran He , Zhenan Sun

Attribute guided face image synthesis aims to manipulate attributes on a face image. Most existing methods for image-to-image translation can either perform a fixed translation between any two image domains using a single attribute or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-02 Behzad Bozorgtabar , Mohammad Saeed Rad , Hazım Kemal Ekenel , Jean-Philippe Thiran

Face aging simulation has received rising investigations nowadays, whereas it still remains a challenge to generate convincing and natural age-progressed face images. In this paper, we present a novel approach to such an issue by using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-04 Hongyu Yang , Di Huang , Yunhong Wang , Heng Wang , Yuanyan Tang

Large language models (LLMs) are widely used in retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) to incorporate external knowledge at inference time. However, when retrieved contexts are noisy, incomplete, or heterogeneous, a single generation process…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Xingchen Xiao , Heyan Huang , Runheng Liu , Jincheng Xie

Age estimation is an essential challenge in computer vision. With the advances of convolutional neural networks, the performance of age estimation has been dramatically improved. Existing approaches usually treat age estimation as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Yi Zhou , Heikki Huttunen , Tapio Elomaa

We introduce the Aging Multiverse, a framework for generating multiple plausible facial aging trajectories from a single image, each conditioned on external factors such as environment, health, and lifestyle. Unlike prior methods that model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Bang Gong , Luchao Qi , Jiaye Wu , Zhicheng Fu , Chunbo Song , David W. Jacobs , John Nicholson , Roni Sengupta

Despite recent advances in personalized image generation, existing models consistently fail to produce reliable multi-human scenes, often merging or losing facial identity. We present Ar2Can, a novel two-stage framework that disentangles…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Shubhankar Borse , Phuc Pham , Farzad Farhadzadeh , Seokeon Choi , Phong Ha Nguyen , Anh Tuan Tran , Sungrack Yun , Munawar Hayat , Fatih Porikli

Time series synthesis is an effective approach to ensuring the secure circulation of time series data. Existing time series synthesis methods typically perform temporal modeling based on random sequences to generate target sequences, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Xuan Hou , Shuhan Liu , Zhaohui Peng , Yaohui Chu , Yue Zhang , Yining Wang

Motivated by the following two observations: 1) people are aging differently under different conditions for changeable facial attributes, e.g., skin color may become darker when working outside, and 2) it needs to keep some unchanged facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-23 Haien Zeng , Hanjiang Lai , Jian Yin

Diffusion models enable high-quality and diverse visual content synthesis. However, they struggle to generate rare or unseen concepts. To address this challenge, we explore the usage of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) with image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Rotem Shalev-Arkushin , Rinon Gal , Amit H. Bermano , Ohad Fried