{"id":201992,"date":"2024-12-20T04:30:15","date_gmt":"2024-12-20T10:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/ai-powered-algorithm-enables-personalized-age-transformation-for-human-faces"},"modified":"2024-12-20T04:30:15","modified_gmt":"2024-12-20T10:30:15","slug":"ai-powered-algorithm-enables-personalized-age-transformation-for-human-faces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/ai-powered-algorithm-enables-personalized-age-transformation-for-human-faces","title":{"rendered":"AI-powered algorithm enables personalized age transformation for human faces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hENjfX8A7V0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and University of Maryland recently developed <a href=\"https:\/\/mytimemachine.github.io\/\" target=\"_blank\">MyTimeMachine (MyTM),<\/a> a new AI-powered method for personalized age transformation that can make human faces in images or videos appear younger or older, accounting for subjective factors influencing aging.<\/p>\n<p>This algorithm, introduced in a <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2411.14521\" target=\"_blank\">paper<\/a> posted to the <i>arXiv<\/i> preprint server, could be used to broaden or enhance the features of consumer-facing picture-editing platforms, but could also be a valuable tool for the film, TV and entertainment industries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVirtual aging techniques are widely used in <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/visual+effects\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">visual effects<\/a> (VFX) in movies, but they require good prosthetics and makeup, often tiresome and inconvenient for actors to wear regularly during shooting,\u201d Roni Sengupta, the researcher who supervised the study, told Tech Xplore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and University of Maryland recently developed MyTimeMachine (MyTM), a new AI-powered method for personalized age transformation that can make human faces in images or videos appear younger or older, accounting for subjective factors influencing aging. This algorithm, introduced in a paper posted to the arXiv preprint [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1499,41,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-cyborgs","category-information-science","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}