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Attention-aware Multi-stroke Style Transfer

Yao, Y; Ren, J; Xie, X; Liu, W; Liu, Y-J; Wang, J; (2020) Attention-aware Multi-stroke Style Transfer. In: 2019 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). (pp. pp. 1467-1475). IEEE: Long Beach, CA, USA. Green open access

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Abstract

Neural style transfer has drawn considerable attention from both academic and industrial field. Although visual effect and efficiency have been significantly improved, existing methods are unable to coordinate spatial distribution of visual attention between the content image and stylized image, or render diverse level of detail via different brush strokes. In this paper, we tackle these limitations by developing an attention-aware multi-stroke style transfer model. We first propose to assemble self-attention mechanism into a style-agnostic reconstruction autoencoder framework, from which the attention map of a content image can be derived. By performing multi-scale style swap on content features and style features, we produce multiple feature maps reflecting different stroke patterns. A flexible fusion strategy is further presented to incorporate the salient characteristics from the attention map, which allows integrating multiple stroke patterns into different spatial regions of the output image harmoniously. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our method, as well as generate comparable stylized images with multiple stroke patterns against the state-of-the-art methods.

Type: Proceedings paper
Title: Attention-aware Multi-stroke Style Transfer
Event: IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
Location: Long Beach, CA
Dates: 16 June 2019 - 20 June 2019
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1109/CVPR.2019.00156
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1109/CVPR.2019.00156
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
UCL classification: UCL
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UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Computer Science
URI: https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10113549
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