Style Transfer

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Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28

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Syntology column: samples harvested from the paper's repositories and executed on synthesized fixtures; “ran” is not a correctness claim and does not order the table. A dash means no Syntology record for that paper, not a recorded non-run. Read from the graph 2026-09-24.

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Datasets archive 2025-07-28

20 datasets whose archive record lists this task, ordered by the archive's paper count.

Subtasks archive 2025-07-28

6 subtasks in the archive's task tree.

Parent tasks archive 2025-07-28

Most implemented papers archive 2025-07-28

30 shown of 759 papers with code (1,661 tagged with this task in all), ordered by repositories listed in the archive, not by stars (the archive holds no stars, so PwC's “Social” and “Latest” sorts cannot be reproduced). Papers without a page here are shown as plain text.

• A Neural Algorithm of Artistic Style
  26 Aug 2015 284 repositories listed Syntology ran 42 of 110 samples · 68 unverified · 39 pointer-only (licence)
  In fine art, especially painting, humans have mastered the skill to create unique visual experiences through composing a complex interplay between the content and style of an image.
• Unpaired Image-to-Image Translation using Cycle-Consistent Adversarial Networks
  30 Mar 2017 190 repositories listed Syntology ran 6 of 31 samples · 25 unverified · 6 pointer-only (licence)
  Image-to-image translation is a class of vision and graphics problems where the goal is to learn the mapping between an input image and an output image using a training set of aligned image pairs.
• Perceptual Losses for Real-Time Style Transfer and Super-Resolution
  27 Mar 2016 80 repositories listed Syntology ran 13 of 46 samples · 33 unverified · 5 pointer-only (licence)
  We consider image transformation problems, where an input image is transformed into an output image.
• Arbitrary Style Transfer in Real-time with Adaptive Instance Normalization
  20 Mar 2017 29 repositories listed Syntology ran 28 of 41 samples · 13 unverified · 29 pointer-only (licence)
  Gatys et al.
• Instance Normalization: The Missing Ingredient for Fast Stylization
  27 Jul 2016 22 repositories listed Syntology ran 1 of 18 samples · 17 unverified
  It this paper we revisit the fast stylization method introduced in Ulyanov et.
• Deep Photo Style Transfer
  22 Mar 2017 21 repositories listed Syntology ran 9 of 24 samples · 15 unverified · 6 pointer-only (licence)
  This paper introduces a deep-learning approach to photographic style transfer that handles a large variety of image content while faithfully transferring the reference style.
• Exploring the structure of a real-time, arbitrary neural artistic stylization network
  18 May 2017 20 repositories listed
  In this paper, we present a method which combines the flexibility of the neural algorithm of artistic style with the speed of fast style transfer networks to allow real-time stylization using any content/style image…
• Universal Style Transfer via Feature Transforms
  23 May 2017 15 repositories listed Syntology ran 4 of 4 samples · 0 unverified · 4 pointer-only (licence)
  The whitening and coloring transforms reflect a direct matching of feature covariance of the content image to a given style image, which shares similar spirits with the optimization of Gram matrix based cost in neural…
• Deep Feature Consistent Variational Autoencoder
  2 Oct 2016 14 repositories listed Syntology ran 2 of 8 samples · 6 unverified · 5 pointer-only (licence)
  We present a novel method for constructing Variational Autoencoder (VAE).
• Style Transfer from Non-Parallel Text by Cross-Alignment
  26 May 2017 12 repositories listed Syntology ran 6 of 7 samples · 1 unverified · 6 pointer-only (licence)
  We demonstrate the effectiveness of this cross-alignment method on three tasks: sentiment modification, decipherment of word substitution ciphers, and recovery of word order.
• AUTOVC: Zero-Shot Voice Style Transfer with Only Autoencoder Loss
  14 May 2019 11 repositories listed
  On the other hand, CVAE training is simple but does not come with the distribution-matching property of a GAN.
• Style Tokens: Unsupervised Style Modeling, Control and Transfer in End-to-End Speech Synthesis
  23 Mar 2018 11 repositories listed Syntology ran 6 of 21 samples · 15 unverified · 7 pointer-only (licence)
  In this work, we propose "global style tokens" (GSTs), a bank of embeddings that are jointly trained within Tacotron, a state-of-the-art end-to-end speech synthesis system.
• Texture Networks: Feed-forward Synthesis of Textures and Stylized Images
  10 Mar 2016 10 repositories listed Syntology ran 1 of 1 samples · 0 unverified · 1 pointer-only (licence)
  Gatys et al.
• A Style-Aware Content Loss for Real-time HD Style Transfer
  26 Jul 2018 9 repositories listed
  These and our qualitative results ranging from small image patches to megapixel stylistic images and videos show that our approach better captures the subtle nature in which a style affects content.
• Neural Style Transfer: A Review
  11 May 2017 9 repositories listed
  We first propose a taxonomy of current algorithms in the field of NST.
• ReCoNet: Real-time Coherent Video Style Transfer Network
  3 Jul 2018 8 repositories listed
  Image style transfer models based on convolutional neural networks usually suffer from high temporal inconsistency when applied to videos.
• Preserving Color in Neural Artistic Style Transfer
  19 Jun 2016 7 repositories listed
  This note presents an extension to the neural artistic style transfer algorithm (Gatys et al.).
• Semantic Style Transfer and Turning Two-Bit Doodles into Fine Artworks
  5 Mar 2016 7 repositories listed
  Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have proven highly effective at image synthesis and style transfer.
• Composer: Creative and Controllable Image Synthesis with Composable Conditions
  20 Feb 2023 6 repositories listed
  Recent large-scale generative models learned on big data are capable of synthesizing incredible images yet suffer from limited controllability.
• Unsupervised Speech Decomposition via Triple Information Bottleneck
  23 Apr 2020 6 repositories listed Syntology ran 0 of 12 samples · 12 unverified
  Speech information can be roughly decomposed into four components: language content, timbre, pitch, and rhythm.
• Style Transfer by Relaxed Optimal Transport and Self-Similarity
  29 Apr 2019 6 repositories listed Syntology ran 0 of 11 samples · 11 unverified
  Style transfer algorithms strive to render the content of one image using the style of another.
• Delete, Retrieve, Generate: A Simple Approach to Sentiment and Style Transfer
  17 Apr 2018 6 repositories listed Syntology ran 0 of 8 samples · 8 unverified
  We consider the task of text attribute transfer: transforming a sentence to alter a specific attribute (e.
• Multi-Content GAN for Few-Shot Font Style Transfer
  1 Dec 2017 6 repositories listed
  In this work, we focus on the challenge of taking partial observations of highly-stylized text and generalizing the observations to generate unobserved glyphs in the ornamented typeface.
• Adversarially Regularized Autoencoders
  13 Jun 2017 6 repositories listed Syntology ran 2 of 2 samples · 0 unverified
  This adversarially regularized autoencoder (ARAE) allows us to generate natural textual outputs as well as perform manipulations in the latent space to induce change in the output space.
• Multi-style Generative Network for Real-time Transfer
  20 Mar 2017 6 repositories listed Syntology ran 1 of 14 samples · 13 unverified
  Despite the rapid progress in style transfer, existing approaches using feed-forward generative network for multi-style or arbitrary-style transfer are usually compromised of image quality and model flexibility.
• Fast Patch-based Style Transfer of Arbitrary Style
  13 Dec 2016 6 repositories listed Syntology ran 0 of 5 samples · 5 unverified
  This results in a procedure for artistic style transfer that is efficient but also allows arbitrary content and style images.
• Controlling Perceptual Factors in Neural Style Transfer
  23 Nov 2016 6 repositories listed Syntology ran 3 of 4 samples · 1 unverified · 4 pointer-only (licence)
  Neural Style Transfer has shown very exciting results enabling new forms of image manipulation.
• MicAugment: One-shot Microphone Style Transfer
  19 Oct 2020 5 repositories listed
  A crucial aspect for the successful deployment of audio-based models "in-the-wild" is the robustness to the transformations introduced by heterogeneous acquisition conditions.
• A Probabilistic Formulation of Unsupervised Text Style Transfer
  10 Feb 2020 5 repositories listed Syntology ran 18 of 25 samples · 7 unverified · 12 pointer-only (licence)
  Across all style transfer tasks, our approach yields substantial gains over state-of-the-art non-generative baselines, including the state-of-the-art unsupervised machine translation techniques that our approach…
• Mellotron: Multispeaker expressive voice synthesis by conditioning on rhythm, pitch and global style tokens
  26 Oct 2019 5 repositories listed
  Mellotron is a multispeaker voice synthesis model based on Tacotron 2 GST that can make a voice emote and sing without emotive or singing training data.

Syntology lines on 19 of the papers shown; no Syntology record for the others (a paper without an arXiv id cannot be joined to the graph, and absence from the graph layer is not a recorded non-run). “Ran” means the sample executed on a synthesized fixture, not that the paper's result was reproduced. Read from the graph 2026-09-24.