No more waiting! Researchers designed a software that can predict how your child will look in 10, 20 or even 80 years
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Parents always want to know what their children will look like when they grow up, and now a new software designed by researchers at the University of Washington can give them a definite answer in seconds.
The age-progression software compares pictures of the child in question with thousands of faces of children of the same age and gender to calculate visual changes, generating photos that predict how the child will look in the future.
Here’s how UW Today explains the technology
The software determines the average pixel arrangement from thousands of random Internet photos of faces in different age and gender brackets. An algorithm then finds correspondences between the averages from each bracket and calculates the average change in facial shape and appearance between ages. These changes are then applied to a new child’s photo to predict how she or he will appear for any subsequent age up to 80.
The researchers showed several images of children to volunteers and then asked them to identify real grown up images from age-progressed rendered images, but the volunteers couldn’t tell the difference between the two. “Our extensive user studies demonstrated age progression results that are so convincing people can’t distinguish them from reality,” Steven Seitz, a professor at UW explained.
The technology can be used to create older versions of missing children, and may help to solve CSI cases.
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