Photorealistic Style Transfer with Screened Poisson Equation

Roey Mechrez, Eli Shechtman and Lihi Zelnik-Manor

Abstract

Recent work has shown impressive success in transferring painterly style to images. These approaches, however, fall short of photorealistic style transfer. Even when both the input and reference images are photographs, the output still exhibits distortions reminiscent of a painting. In this paper we propose an approach that takes as input a stylized image and makes it more photorealistic. It relies on the Screened Poisson Equation, maintaining the fidelity of the stylized image while constraining the gradients to those of the original input image. Our method is fast, simple, fully automatic and shows positive progress in making a stylized image photorealistic.

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10.5244/C.31.153
https://dx.doi.org/10.5244/C.31.153

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Roey Mechrez, Eli Shechtman and Lihi Zelnik-Manor. Photorealistic Style Transfer with Screened Poisson Equation. In T.K. Kim, S. Zafeiriou, G. Brostow and K. Mikolajczyk, editors, Proceedings of the British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), pages 153.1-153.12. BMVA Press, September 2017.

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            @inproceedings{BMVC2017_153,
                title={Photorealistic Style Transfer with Screened Poisson Equation},
                author={Roey Mechrez, Eli Shechtman and Lihi Zelnik-Manor},
                year={2017},
                month={September},
                pages={153.1-153.12},
                articleno={153},
                numpages={12},
                booktitle={Proceedings of the British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC)},
                publisher={BMVA Press},
                editor={Tae-Kyun Kim, Stefanos Zafeiriou, Gabriel Brostow and Krystian Mikolajczyk},
                doi={10.5244/C.31.153},
                isbn={1-901725-60-X},
                url={https://dx.doi.org/10.5244/C.31.153}
            }