Google announced in September 2016 messaging app "Allo", the SELPHY was based on the sticker creation function has been added.
The illustration on the right is what the artist drew in common with those in the picture
This function uses a neural network. The goal is to create a sticker that seems to be familiar to friends by the user. To that end, Google has created a wide range of illustrations capturing features of the face with the artistic team. It seems that there were several stages in the process.
First of all, the artist illustrated several hairstyles that seemed to be representative, and trained to match the illustration of the hairstyle that suits himself/herself to the network. Next, a person in charge called Human Rater who helped training the network judges the accuracy of the completed sticker. If it is judged that the result is not so good, the artist designed the illustration further and increased the kinds of illustrations the neural network can choose.
In this way, Google has worked so that the user's features are accurately picked up by the stickers. As a result, users are comfortable not to do anything in creating illustrations .
Of course, if the completed sticker is unsatisfactory, you can customize your face and hair parts yourself. You can also improve the perfection or make it more comical. Illustrations you created can only be used with Allo, but if you enjoy this kind of illustrations, I definitely would like to use other apps as well.
Note that this function is currently only available for the Android version of Allo. iOS version of the app in a few days because it is going to function to be released, "there, 'll not use such a function" you or I thought I let a little wait.
