Back in March 2019 we’d already seen artificial people. Yawn.

Back then a Generative adversarial network (GAN) was used to produce random human faces from scratch. It synthesized human faces out of randomness.

Now take it a step further and input actual small images. Like thumbnails or emojis or else.

And what do you get?

Quite impressive, eh? There’s more after the jump.

Oh and they wrote a paper about it: Progressive Face Super-Resolution via Attention to Facial Landmark