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In this paper, an optimized face-aging method based on a Deep Convolutional Generative Adversarial Network (DCGAN) is proposed. In this method, an original face image is initially mapped to a personal latent vector by an encoder, and then the personal potential vector is combined with the age condition vector and the gender condition vector through a connector. The output of the connector is the input of the generator. A stable and photo-realistic facial image is then generated by maintaining personalized facial features and changing age conditions. With regard to the objective function, the single adversarial loss of the Generated Adversarial Network (GAN) with the perceptual similarity loss is replaced by the perceptual similarity loss function, which is the weighted sum of adversarial loss, feature space loss, pixel space loss, and age loss. The experimental results show that the proposed method can synthesize an aging face with rich texture and visual reality and outperform similar work.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/info10020069","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,2,19]],"date-time":"2019-02-19T04:08:20Z","timestamp":1550549300000},"page":"69","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":14,"title":["Bidirectional Face Aging Synthesis Based on Improved Deep Convolutional Generative Adversarial Networks"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"10","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4577-2250","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Xinhua","family":"Liu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Information Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, China"},{"name":"Key Laboratory of Fiber Optic Sensing Technology and Information Processing, Wuhan University of Technology, Ministry of Education, Wuhan 430070, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Yao","family":"Zou","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Information Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, China"},{"name":"Key Laboratory of Fiber Optic Sensing Technology and Information Processing, Wuhan University of Technology, Ministry of Education, Wuhan 430070, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Chengjuan","family":"Xie","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Information Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, China"},{"name":"Key Laboratory of Fiber Optic Sensing Technology and Information Processing, Wuhan University of Technology, Ministry of Education, Wuhan 430070, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Hailan","family":"Kuang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Information Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, China"},{"name":"Key Laboratory of Fiber Optic Sensing Technology and Information Processing, Wuhan University of Technology, Ministry of Education, Wuhan 430070, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Xiaolin","family":"Ma","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Information Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, China"},{"name":"Key Laboratory of Fiber Optic Sensing Technology and Information Processing, Wuhan University of Technology, Ministry of Education, Wuhan 430070, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2019,2,18]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"442","DOI":"10.1109\/34.993553","article-title":"Toward automatic simulation of aging effects on face images","volume":"24","author":"Lanitis","year":"2002","journal-title":"IEEE Trans. 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