DeepFaceDrawing AI turns a sketch into realistic human face image

Researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the City University of Hong Kong have developed a deep learning-based solution for sketch-to-image translation. The team presented their technical paper (requires login) at Siggraph 2020 that concluded recently. They demonstrated a system that uses rough or incomplete freehand sketches and produces high-quality realistic face images (resolution: 512 × 512), which faithfully respect the input sketches. Here faithfulness means the degree of fitness to input sketches.  Other researchers have also tried to generate images from incomplete sketches. But their methods have required relatively accurate inputs, which is difficult without professional-level drawing skills.