A software for aging faces applied to ancient marble busts

TL;DR

This paper explores the use of face aging software to analyze and compare ancient marble busts, demonstrating its potential for applications in art analysis and historical studies.

Contribution

It applies existing face aging software to the analysis of ancient marble busts, showcasing a novel interdisciplinary approach in art and historical research.

Findings

Software provides interesting results in bust comparison

Facilitates analysis of visual arts and historical artifacts

Demonstrates potential for interdisciplinary applications

Abstract

The study and development of software able to show the effect of aging of faces is one of the tasks of face recognition technologies. Some software solutions are used for investigations, some others to show the effects of drugs on healthy appearance, however some other applications can be proposed for the analysis of visual arts. Here we use a freely available software, which is providing interesting results, for the comparison of ancient marble busts. An analysis of Augustus busts is proposed.