DiffClean: Diffusion-based Makeup Removal for Accurate Age Estimation

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Main Authors: Gavas, Ekta, Banerjee, Sudipta, Hegde, Chinmay, Memon, Nasir
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Published: 2025
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author Gavas, Ekta
Banerjee, Sudipta
Hegde, Chinmay
Memon, Nasir
author_facet Gavas, Ekta
Banerjee, Sudipta
Hegde, Chinmay
Memon, Nasir
contents Accurate age verification can protect underage users from unauthorized access to online platforms and e-commerce sites that provide age-restricted services. However, accurate age estimation can be confounded by several factors, including facial makeup that can induce changes to alter perceived identity and age to fool both humans and machines. In this work, we propose DiffClean which erases makeup traces using a text-guided diffusion model to defend against makeup attacks. DiffClean improves age estimation (minor vs. adult accuracy by 5.8%) and face verification (TMR by 5.1% at FMR=0.01%) compared to images with makeup. Our method is robust across digitally simulated and real-world makeup styles, and outperforms multiple baselines in terms of biometric and perceptual quality. Our codes are available at https://github.com/Ektagavas/DiffClean.
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spellingShingle DiffClean: Diffusion-based Makeup Removal for Accurate Age Estimation
Gavas, Ekta
Banerjee, Sudipta
Hegde, Chinmay
Memon, Nasir
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Accurate age verification can protect underage users from unauthorized access to online platforms and e-commerce sites that provide age-restricted services. However, accurate age estimation can be confounded by several factors, including facial makeup that can induce changes to alter perceived identity and age to fool both humans and machines. In this work, we propose DiffClean which erases makeup traces using a text-guided diffusion model to defend against makeup attacks. DiffClean improves age estimation (minor vs. adult accuracy by 5.8%) and face verification (TMR by 5.1% at FMR=0.01%) compared to images with makeup. Our method is robust across digitally simulated and real-world makeup styles, and outperforms multiple baselines in terms of biometric and perceptual quality. Our codes are available at https://github.com/Ektagavas/DiffClean.
title DiffClean: Diffusion-based Makeup Removal for Accurate Age Estimation
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13292