Chinese Ancient Painting Figure Face Restoration and its Application in a Q&A Interaction System

We design a complete technical chain for developing a Q&A interaction system between Chinese ancient figures and modern users. The system is built on end-cloud collaboration, and all the users need to do is uploading a Chinese ancient painting figure face image. The interactive ability is realized by a large language model. Chinese ancient paintings often emphasize vivid expression and lack realism. Therefore, to enhance the time-travel experience, we restore the Chinese ancient painting figure faces as modern faces with realistic style, which is also the most critical and challenging part in the entire technical chain. We solve this problem by the StyleGAN2 generator in the encoder4editing (e4e) algorithm. Our system is very expected to be deployed in application scenarios such as museums.