Finding Missing Children: Aging Deep Face Features

11/18/2019

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by   Debayan Deb, et al.

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Given a gallery of face images of missing children, state-of-the-art face recognition systems fall short in identifying a child (probe) recovered at a later age. We propose an age-progression module that can age-progress deep face features output by any commodity face matcher. For time lapses larger than 10 years (the missing child is found after 10 or more years), the proposed age-progression module improves the closed-set identification accuracy of FaceNet from 40 celebrity dataset, namely ITWCC. The proposed method also outperforms state-of-the-art approaches with a rank-1 identification rate from 94.91 95.91 These results suggest that aging face features enhances the ability to identify young children who are possible victims of child trafficking or abduction.