{"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/what-s-in-a-decade-transforming-faces-through","title":"What's in a Decade? Transforming Faces Through Time","arxiv_id":"2210.06642","date":"2022-10-13","proceeding":null,"authors":["Eric Ming Chen","Jin Sun","Apoorv Khandelwal","Dani Lischinski","Noah Snavely","Hadar Averbuch-Elor"],"abstract":"How can one visually characterize people in a decade? In this work, we assemble the Faces Through Time dataset, which contains over a thousand portrait images from each decade, spanning the 1880s to the present day. Using our new dataset, we present a framework for resynthesizing portrait images across time, imagining how a portrait taken during a particular decade might have looked like, had it been taken in other decades. Our framework optimizes a family of per-decade generators that reveal subtle changes that differentiate decade--such as different hairstyles or makeup--while maintaining the identity of the input portrait. Experiments show that our method is more effective in resynthesizing portraits across time compared to state-of-the-art image-to-image translation methods, as well as attribute-based and language-guided portrait editing models. Our code and data will be available at https://facesthroughtime.github.io","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.06642v3","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2210.06642v3.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":"what-s-in-a-decade-transforming-faces-through","repo_url":"https://huggingface.co/spaces/emc348/faces-through-time","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":0,"mentioned_in_github":0,"framework":"none","reach":null}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"attribute","task_name":"Attribute"},{"task_slug":"image-to-image-translation","task_name":"Image-to-Image Translation"}],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[{"slug":"faces-through-time","name":"Faces Through Time","full_name":""}],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":"https://app.syntology.ai/?focus=2210.06642","mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}