Transcript ppt

Texture Synthesis by Image
Quilting
CS766 Class Project
Fall 2004
Eric Robinson
Today we will answer these
questions:
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What is texture synthesis?
Can it be used in the real world?
What were the earlier approaches to texture
synthesis?
What is image quilting?
How does image quilting perform?
What can we say about image quilting?
Where can we go from here?
What is texture synthesis?
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Create large texture
image from small one
Hopefully capture
texture properties
Given this:
Produce something like this:
Can it be used in the real world?
Example task: Image based rendering
Reconstruct world
 Time consuming
 Computationally
expensive
 Probably overkill
Sample, synthesize, map
 Fast
 Limited input required
 Requires ability to
synthesize (and transfer)
large amounts of image
data
What were the earlier approaches?
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“Statistical property” matching
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Tiling
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Determine relevant texture properties (histograms,
filter responses), synthesize image with matching
properties
Place together random blocks - captures local
properties, many boundary errors
Pixel-at-a-time estimation from neighbors
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Use conditional probability of pixel values to
synthesize new image – requires search of entire
input for each output pixel!
What is Image Quilting?
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Similar to tiling approach
Reduce boundary errors by:
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Find good fit of overlapping tiles and
Allow ragged edges between tiles to minimize
boundary error
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Illustration based on that used in Efros & Freeman paper “Image Quilting for Texture Synthesis and Transfer”
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How does Image Quilting perform ?
How does Image Quilting perform ?
How does Image Quilting perform?
What can we say about Image
Quilting?
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Strengths
Excellent results on
structured patterns
Relatively fast
Intuitive approach
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Weaknesses
Boundaries (still!)
Excessive repetition
Parameter setting
Where can we go from here?
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Fully-structured textures:
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Results are quite good
Semi-structured textures:
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Boundary problem
Allow rectangular patches
 Allow variable overlap size
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Repetition problem
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Flip or rotate patches
What does patch size affect?
6 pixels
10 pixels
6 pixels
24 pixels
42 pixels
24 pixels
What does overlap size affect?
1 pixel
7 pixels
21 pixels
8 pixels
24 pixels
36 pixels