Age Progression

 

Age Progression Forensic Art – Age Progression. Through Forensic Compositing we can create an Age Progression to help investigators solve crimes and find missing people. This service is also available for the general public. Age progression is the process of modifying a photograph of a person to represent the effect of aging on their appearance. Digital image processing is the most common technique today, although sometimes artists' drawings are used.

Kitten Age Progression. 1 Day Old Eyes closed, can not stand. When they are 1-3 days old the umbilical cord is still attached. 3 Days Old Eyes closed, can not stand and their ears are starting to unfold. 6 Days Old Their eyes are starting to open, and they are starting to crawl around. 1 Week Old Their eyes are almost completely. Amazing age progression tool uses your honest responses to answers to determine whether your body is showing more wear and tear than it should be for your calendar age. Health Age and Life Expectancy: This cool calculator is meant to help you figure out your health age. Age progression typically involves an acceleration of the aging process, by magical, scientific, or unexplained methods. This results in graying hair, wrinkles, weight gain, fat distribution around the body, and more. Like weight gain and nerd transformations, age progression can be part of a punishment/humiliation story.

We sometimes want to see how our face changed through ages from a baby until now. More interestingly, we wonder how our face would progress as we get old. The two main age progression categories are child into adult and adult into old age. Combining the two categories is also possible, as a child may become an adult, and then continue to old age. In motion pictures, there are movies in which children physically become adults such as Big, 13 Going on 30. The opposite process of age progress is age regression, which shows how a person gets younger. A series of age progression images are shown in the below figure.

Overview of the (fictional) age progression of Bruce Lee, a famous Asian actor.

Baby

Applications

Age progression can be used extensively in several applications. For example, it is widely used as a forensics tool by the law enforcement. Age progression can be used to show the likely current appearance of a missing person from a photograph many years old. Our particular interest is to predict what a person would look like when they are younger and older. We also interest in finding what would Bruce Lee would look like if he lives on. Since there was very few Bruce Lee's baby photo, it would be fun to approximate what he would look like when he was young. The entire age progression of Bruce Lee can be achieve using this method with tuned blending factors.
The project is implemented in MATLAB. The software, called Age Progression Manipulator, is developed as the result of the method. Age Progression Manipulator offers a couple of features in which users can experience. Below is a few key features that is available:

Key features

Interactive inputs

You will get to decide how should Bruce looks when he was young or when he would have got older. It's all up to your creativity to morphing the images.

Princess

Two blending modes

There's two blending modes you can choose from: shape or color. The shape blending control the facial structure of the morphing images. The color blending controls the skin and hair texture.

Real-time simulation

The program would render your input in realtime. I manage to do so via a fast image morphoing algorithm.

Exportable results

You got to show your result image by printing it. Now go and get on with it!

Downloads

Age Progression
The program is free for non-commericial usage. This download include a single executible file to run in Windows/Linux OS. After download, double click on ageprogression.exe inside the folder to run. If you do not have MATLAB installed on your computer, you first need to download and install the MATLAB Compiler Runtime (MCR) in order to run this program.

PDF file explaining the method

Age Progression ZIP file

MCRInstaller v.7.8 (for non-MATLAB user)

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AGE PROGRESSIONS of adults are done in cases of endangered missing adults as well as fugitives, all in the hopes of generating renewed public interest and fresh leads for investigators.

Forensic artists don’t have any special gifts or psychic ability to predict what someone will look like in the future. What we do have is in-depth knowledge of facial anatomy, we’ve studied aging patterns of the face, and we have the artistic ability to illustrate those changes. Barring any new specific information about a person’s appearance, it really comes down to educated guesswork.

To create an age-progressed image, whether by retouching the photo or doing a drawing, an artist follows the same basic protocol. First, we try to get as much information on the person as possible, such as their lifestyle, genetics, occupation, etc. The more information, the better. This is because an outdoorsy and athletic person will likely age much differently than someone who had a sedentary office job or was prone to health problems.

Age Progression Software

Whether hand drawn or produced with the use of Photoshop, age progressions are just one of several possible “looks’ that a person may have when they age. Forensic artists are not psychic, and there is no guarantee that what is produced will look 100%, or even 75% of what the person may look like when apprehended.

But, with a motivated law enforcement team putting the image out there to the public, this can often generate enough interest that people will take a second look, and call in a lead.

CHILD AGE PROGRESSIONS of children are a different story. Needless to say, the aging process for adults is vastly different than that of children, so the method for producing an age-progressed image of a child is different as well. Instead of lifestyle changes, artists must depict the proportional changes of a child’s growth. This requires specialized knowledge, and ideally, specific input from the missing child’s parents and siblings. Many cases of child abductions are a result of custody disputes so this input isn’t always available, but continually updated images of the missing child are a way to help keep the search alive, and in the public’s memory.

Age Progression

Age Progression App

Please note: I do not do age progressions or depictions of the deceased; however, I can highly recommend Phojoe. I have no affiliation with their company, but they do excellent work in this regard.