Symmetry-Guided Texture Synthesis and Manipulation

Vladimir G. Kim, Yaron Lipman, Thomas Funkhouser

TOG 2012

@VCC Seminar Qian Zheng

Introduction

• An old problem: texture synthesis and processing

• New perspective: explicit control spatial patterns

Introduction

• Many materials have fine-scale textures with large-scale spatial pattern

how to optimize, transfer, and control the spatial patterns in textures

Introduction

• The goal: utilize computed representations of partial and approximate symmetries to guide texture synthesis and manipulation

• Key idea: Operate in a symmetry space which represents spatial patterns

Symmetry• How to measure the spatial patterns in a

image

image f The spatial pattern ST(f)

Symmetry transferSource image: f

Target pattern image: g

Target Image (θ(f))

OverviewImage quilting technique

Results

Symmetry filtering

Symmetry optimization

mean of the symmetry representation

Limitations

• Sometimes the texture perturbation model is not flexible enough to generate an output image

Conclusion

• Proposed a framework for symmetry-guided synthesis and processing of textures