Lin Gao at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing and his colleagues have developed an algorithm that instantly turns a rudimentary line sketch of a person’s face into a photo portrait.

Researchers have found a way to turn simple line drawings into photo-realistic facial ... the software refers to a database of faces and facial components, and considers how each facial element ...

It could be that the act of transforming any complex, 3-dimensional mental representation into a simplified, 2-dimensional line drawing is where the difficulty lies. Simplified faces What would ...

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