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Anime2Sketch

A sketch extractor for anime/illustration.

From Mukosame·Updated June 18, 2026·View on GitHub·

*Anime2Sketch: A sketch extractor for illustration, anime art, manga* The project is written primarily in Python, distributed under the MIT License license, first published in 2021. It has gained significant community traction with 2,114 stars and 175 forks on GitHub. Key topics include: anime, comic, computer-vision, deep-learning, gan.

Anime2Sketch

Anime2Sketch: A sketch extractor for illustration, anime art, manga

By Xiaoyu Xiang

teaser demo

Updates

  • 2022.1.14: Add Docker environment by kitoria
  • 2021.12.25: Update README. Merry Christmas!
  • 2021.5.24: Fix an interpolation error and a GPU inference error.
  • 2021.5.12: Web Demo by AK391
    gradio_web_demo
  • 2021.5.2: Upload more example results of anime video.
  • 2021.4.30: Upload the test scripts. Now our repo is ready to run!
  • 2021.4.11: Upload the pretrained weights, and more test results.
  • 2021.4.8: Create the repo.

Introduction

The repository contains the testing codes and pretrained weights for Anime2Sketch.

Anime2Sketch is a sketch extractor that works well on illustration, anime art, and manga. It is an application based on the paper "Adversarial Open Domain Adaption for Sketch-to-Photo Synthesis".

Prerequisites

  • Linux, macOS, Docker
  • Python 3 (Recommend to use Anaconda)
  • CPU or NVIDIA GPU + CUDA CuDNN
  • Pillow, PyTorch

Get Started

Installation

Install the required packages: pip install -r requirements.txt

Download Pretrained Weights

Please download the weights from GoogleDrive, and put it into the weights/ folder.

We also have an artifact-free version of the model which works with dark / low contrast images. You can download the weights from GoogleDrive, and put it into weights/ folder.

Test

Shell
python3 test.py --dataroot /your_input/dir --load_size 512 --output_dir /your_output/dir

The above command includes three arguments:

  • dataroot: your test file or directory
  • load_size: due to the memory limit, we need to resize the input image before processing. By default, we resize it to 512x512.
  • output_dir: path of the output directory

Run our example:

Shell
python3 test.py --dataroot test_samples/madoka.jpg --load_size 512 --output_dir results/

Docker

If you want to run on Docker, you can easily do so by customizing the input/output images directory.
Build docker image

Shell
make docker-build

Setting input/output directory
You can customize mount volumes for input/output images by Makefile. Please setting your target directory.

docker run -it --rm --gpus all -v `pwd`:/workspace -v {your_input_dir}:/input -v {your_output_dir}:/output anime2sketch

example:

docker run -it --rm --gpus all -v `pwd`:/workspace -v `pwd`/test_samples:/input -v `pwd`/output:/output anime2sketch

Run

Shell
make docker-run

if you want to run cpu only, you will need to fix two things (remove gpu options).

  • Dockerfile CMD line to CMD [ "python", "test.py", "--dataroot", "/input", "--load_size", "512", "--output_dir", "/output" ]
  • Makefile docker-run line to docker run -it --rm -v `pwd`:/workspace -v `pwd`/images/input:/input -v `pwd`/images/output:/output anime2sketch

Train

This project is a sub-branch of AODA. Please check it for the training instructions.

More Results

Our model works well on illustration arts:
madoka demo
demo1
Turn handrawn photos to clean linearts:
demo2
Simplify freehand sketches:
demo3
And more anime results:
demo4
demo5

Contact

Xiaoyu Xiang.

You can also leave your questions as issues in the repository. I will be glad to answer them!

License

This project is released under the MIT License.

Citations

BibTex
@misc{Anime2Sketch, author = {Xiaoyu Xiang, Ding Liu, Xiao Yang, Yiheng Zhu, Xiaohui Shen}, title = {Anime2Sketch: A Sketch Extractor for Anime Arts with Deep Networks}, year = {2021}, publisher = {GitHub}, journal = {GitHub repository}, howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/Mukosame/Anime2Sketch}} } @inproceedings{xiang2022adversarial, title={Adversarial Open Domain Adaptation for Sketch-to-Photo Synthesis}, author={Xiang, Xiaoyu and Liu, Ding and Yang, Xiao and Zhu, Yiheng and Shen, Xiaohui and Allebach, Jan P}, booktitle={Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision}, year={2022} }

Contributors

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