We introduce an example-based synthesis technique that extrapolates novel styles for a given input image. The technique is based on separating the style and content of image fragments. Given an image with a new style and content, it is first adaptively partitioned into fragments. Stitching together novel fragments produces a coherent image in a new style for a given content. The aggregate of sy...

This paper describes a system, dubbed PointWorks, for rendering three-dimensionally digitized outdoor environments in non-photorealistic rendering styles. The difficulty in rendering outdoor environments is accommodating their inaccuracy, incompleteness, and large size to deliver a smooth animation without suggesting the underlying data deficiency. The key method discussed in this paper is empl...

Prior research indicates that East Asians are more sensitive to contextual information than Westerners. This article explored aesthetics to examine whether cultural variations were observable in art and photography. Study 1 analyzed traditional artistic styles using archival data in representative museums. Study 2 investigated how contemporary East Asians and Westerners draw landscape pictures ...

This paper further investigates the use of a statistical sketching model previously introduced in [Mignotte (2003)]. In this Bayesian framework, the localization and deformation of each pencil stroke of the sketch to be synthesized is viewed as the search of its Maximum A Posteriori (MAP) estimate. First, we improve this model by bringing a pencil stroke rendering procedure combined with a loca...

This study investigates how semantic networks represent different artistic furniture. Event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded while participants made style-match judgments for table and chair sets. All of the tables were in the Normal style, whereas the chairs were in the Normal, Minimal, ReadyMade, or Deconstruction styles. The Normal and Minimal chairs had the same rates of "match" resp...

We present an application of texture synthesis in creating collages. We use the texture synthesis method proposed by Ashikhmin [1] to selectively copy patches of the source image onto the image to be stylized, creating an automatic collage. The underlying algorithm is fast and allows the user to iteratively improve the quality of the resulting image. We show the use of this algorithm in capturi...