{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/recursive-chaining-of-reversible-image-to","title":"Recursive Chaining of Reversible Image-to-image Translators For Face Aging","arxiv_id":"1802.05023","date":"2018-02-14","proceeding":null,"authors":["Ari Heljakka","Arno Solin","Juho Kannala"],"abstract":"This paper addresses the modeling and simulation of progressive changes over\ntime, such as human face aging. By treating the age phases as a sequence of\nimage domains, we construct a chain of transformers that map images from one\nage domain to the next. Leveraging recent adversarial image translation\nmethods, our approach requires no training samples of the same individual at\ndifferent ages. Here, the model must be flexible enough to translate a child\nface to a young adult, and all the way through the adulthood to old age. We\nfind that some transformers in the chain can be recursively applied on their\nown output to cover multiple phases, compressing the chain. The structure of\nthe chain also unearths information about the underlying physical process. We\ndemonstrate the performance of our method with precise and intuitive metrics,\nand visually match with the face aging state-of-the-art.","url_abs":"http://arxiv.org/abs/1802.05023v2","url_pdf":"http://arxiv.org/pdf/1802.05023v2.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"recursive-chaining-of-reversible-image-to","repo_url":"https://github.com/AaltoVision/img-transformer-chain","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"tf","reach":null},{"paper_slug":"recursive-chaining-of-reversible-image-to","repo_url":"https://github.com/heljakka/img-transformer-chain","is_official":0,"mentioned_in_paper":0,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"tf","reach":null}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"translation","task_name":"Translation"}],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"syntology_url":null,"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}