HIGH-RESOLUTION CONTROLLABLE FACE AGING WITH SPATIALLY-AWARE CONDITIONAL GANS

摘要

There are provided computing devices and methods, etc. to controllably transform an image of a face, including a high resolution image, to simulate continuous aging. Ethnicity-specific aging information and weak spatial supervision are used to guide the aging process defined through training a model comprising a GANs based generator. Aging maps present the ethnicity-specific aging information as skin sign scores or apparent age values. The scores are located in the map in association with a respective location of the skin sign zone of the face associated with the skin sign. Patch-based training, particularly in association with location information to differentiate similar patches from different parts of the face, is used to train on high resolution images while minimize resource usage.