Image Quilting for Texture Synthesis and Transfer
Alexei A. Efros, William T. Freeman
Abstract
We present a simple image-based method of generating novel visual appearance in which a new image is synthesized by stitching together small patches of existing images. We call this process image quilting. First, we use quilting as a fast and very simple texture synthesis algorithm which produces surprisingly good results for a wide range of textures. Second, we extend the algorithm to perform texture transfer - rendering an object with a texture taken from a different object. More generally, we demonstrate how an image can be re-rendered in the style of a different image. The method works directly on the images and does not require 3D information.
Topics & Concepts
QuiltingArtificial intelligenceTexture synthesisImage stitchingComputer scienceTexture compressionComputer visionTexture filteringTexture atlasImage textureImage (mathematics)Rendering (computer graphics)Bidirectional texture functionTexture (cosmology)Computer graphics (images)Pattern recognition (psychology)Image processingGeographyArchaeologyComputer Graphics and Visualization TechniquesGenerative Adversarial Networks and Image SynthesisAdvanced Vision and Imaging