De Novo Reconstruction of 3D Human Facial Images from DNA Sequence.

ABSTRACT: Facial morphology is a distinctive biometric marker, offering invaluable insights into personal identity, especially in forensic science. In the context of high-throughput sequencing, the reconstruction of 3D human facial images from DNA is becoming a revolutionary approach for identifying individuals based on unknown biological specimens. Inspired by artificial intelligence techniques in text-to-image synthesis, it proposes Difface, a multi-modality model designed to reconstruct 3D facial images only from DNA. Specifically, Difface first utilizes a transformer and a spiral convolution network to map high-dimensional Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms and 3D facial images to the same low-dimensional features, respectively, while establishing the association between both modalities in the late

SUBMITTER: Jiao M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12362825 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature