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Drafting and Revision: Laplacian Pyramid Network for Fast High-Quality Artistic Style Transfer

12 Apr 2021CVPR 2021 1arXiv:2104.05376archive 2025-07-28

Tianwei Lin, Zhuoqi Ma, Fu Li, Dongliang He, Xin Li, Errui Ding, Nannan Wang, Jie Li, Xinbo Gao

Artistic style transfer aims at migrating the style from an example image to a content image. Currently, optimization-based methods have achieved great stylization quality, but expensive time cost restricts their practical applications. Meanwhile, feed-forward methods still fail to synthesize complex style, especially when holistic global and local patterns exist. Inspired by the common painting process of drawing a draft and revising the details, we introduce a novel feed-forward method named Laplacian Pyramid Network (LapStyle). LapStyle first transfers global style patterns in low-resolution via a Drafting Network. It then revises the local details in high-resolution via a Revision Network, which hallucinates a residual image according to the draft and the image textures extracted by Laplacian filtering. Higher resolution details can be easily generated by stacking Revision Networks with multiple Laplacian pyramid levels. The final stylized image is obtained by aggregating outputs of all pyramid levels. %We also introduce a patch discriminator to better learn local patterns adversarially. Experiments demonstrate that our method can synthesize high quality stylized images in real time, where holistic style patterns are properly transferred.

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Adaptive Instance NormalizationConvolutionDense ConnectionsDrafting NetworkDropoutLapStyleMax PoolingPatchGANReLUResidual ConnectionRevision NetworkSoftmax

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