Statistical Analysis and Transfer of Pictorial Styles

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Statistical Analysis and Transfer of Pictorial
Styles

• Soonmin Bae, Frédo Durand
• MIT CSAIL CGG

• Style modeling
• Quantitative characteristics of image styles
  related to how humans differentiate them
• Style transfer between images
• Style interpolation and style manipulation

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Composition vs. Small strokes

• Average power across frequencies
• Large and Smooth brush strokes, and Compositional
  contrast
• vs.
• Small brush strokes and less compositional
  contrast

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Natural vs. Artistic

• Average coefficient across scales of steerable
  pyramid
• Natural image
• Flat histogram
• Ansel Adams
• More energy in the low-frequencies

Natural image
High freq
Low freq
Ansel Adams
High freq
Low freq
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From Painting to Photo
Original
Signac
Manet
Ansel Adams
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Applications

• Style transfer for photo and video
• Image retrieval
• Helps distinguish images
• Realistic graphics
• Helps understand the difference b/w NPR and PR
• Helps enhance photo-realistic graphics.