AI aids in reconstruction of unidentified martyrs' faces

A special technique, which synthesizes facial images from skull images using a deep learning model, has been used by researchers at Sichuan University to reconstruct the faces of unidentified revolutionary martyrs, helping their living relatives to find closure after decades of speculation.

Over the past year, the faces of 205 martyrs have been reconstructed, said Liang Weibo, a professor at Sichuan University's West China School of Basic Medical Sciences and Forensic Medicine, adding that the images of 57 martyrs have been presented to their kin.

Liang's team, in collaboration with the university's School of Computer Science and faculty and students of other institutions, used generative artificial intelligence for the craniofacial reconstruction.