# Cali-Sketch: Stroke Calibration and Completion for High-Quality Face Image Generation from Human-Like Sketches

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.00426 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/1911.00426/

## Key facts

- Cited by 1 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 1 Nov 2019.

## Built on by (most cited first, 1 of 1)

- [Towards Flexible, Scalable, and Adaptive Multi-Modal Conditioned Face Synthesis](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2312.16274/) (2023)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Image generation has received increasing attention because of its wide application in security and entertainment. Sketch-based face generation brings more fun and better quality of image generation due to supervised interaction. However, when a sketch poorly aligned with the true face is given as input, existing supervised image-to-image translation methods often cannot generate acceptable photo-realistic face images. To address this problem, in this paper we propose Cali-Sketch, a human-like-sketch to photo-realistic-image generation method. Cali-Sketch explicitly models stroke calibration and image generation using two constituent networks: a Stroke Calibration Network (SCN), which calibrates strokes of facial features and enriches facial details while preserving the original intent features; and an Image Synthesis Network (ISN), which translates the calibrated and enriched sketches to photo-realistic face images. In this way, we manage to decouple a difficult cross-domain translation problem into two easier steps. Extensive experiments verify that the face photos generated by Cali-Sketch are both photo-realistic and faithful to the input sketches, compared with state-of-the-art methods.