Date of Award

12-29-2014

Document Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Department

Computer Science

First Advisor

Coskun Bayrak

Abstract

The human aging process is a complicated topic in the biological sciences. It is human nature to want to keep looking young and interested in one's appearance many years into the future. Some fundamental questions related to this issue are, "How fast are we aging?" Is it a continuous process or is it a process of phases? What will I possibly look like after ten years? To provide an answer to all of these questions, it is necessary to closely monitor the changes taking places in our anatomy. Wrinkles and human face shape deformation, which are the natural signs of aging, evolve in micro-steps that cannot be detected. In the scope of this research, we aim shed some lights aforementioned questions by using computational methods to model the aging process based on evidence from imaging analysis and biological aging properties. Developing new algorithms, modeling the property-based aging process and building the accurate human face model are the main purposes of this research.

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