1. Statistical Analysis and Transfer of Pictorial Styles
Soonmin Bae, Frédo Durand
MIT CSAIL CGG
Style modeling
Quantitative characteristics of image styles related to how humans differentiate them
Style transfer between images
Style interpolation and style manipulation

2. Composition vs. Small strokes
Average power across frequencies
Large and Smooth brush strokes, and Compositional contrast
vs.
Small brush strokes and less compositional contrast

3. “Natural” vs. “Artistic”
Average coefficient across scales of steerable pyramid
“Natural” image
Flat histogram
Ansel Adams
More energy in the low-frequencies
Natural image
Low freq
High freq
Ansel Adams
Low freq
High freq

4. From Painting to Photo
Original
Signac
Manet
Ansel Adams

5. Applications Style transfer for photo and video Image retrieval
Helps distinguish images
Realistic graphics
Helps understand the difference b/w NPR and PR
Helps enhance photo-realistic graphics.