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Video style transfer by consistent adaptive patch sampling

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This paper addresses the example-based stylization of videos. Style transfer aims at editing an image so that it matches the style of an example. This topic has been recently investigated by several researchers, both in the industry and in academia. The difficulty lies in how to capture the style of an image and correctly transferring it to a video. In this paper, we build on our previous work “Split and Match” for still pictures, based on adaptive patch synthesis. We address the issue of extending that particular technique to video, ensuring that the solution is spatially and temporally consistent. Results show that our video style transfer is visually plausible, while being very competitive regarding computation time and memory when compared to neural network approaches.

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    Oriel Frigo, Neus Sabater & Pierre Hellier

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Frigo, O., Sabater, N., Delon, J. et al. Video style transfer by consistent adaptive patch sampling. Vis Comput 35, 429–443 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00371-018-1474-1

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