Artistic image synthesis aims to recreate the expressive visual identity of a target artist, yet existing methods often fail to capture an artist's global style. Conventional style transfer methods transfer the style of one or a few reference artworks to a content image in a One-to-One manner, making them effective for artwork-level stylization but limited in representing the broader stylistic distribution of an artist.
arXiv:2602.08059v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Text-to-image diffusion models can reproduce specific artists visual styles at extremely low cost, raising copyright and deployment safety co...
By Tong Zhang, Ru Zhang, Jianyi Liu
arXiv:2608. 14405v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Art style is a signature of professional digital artists that develops through repeated experimentation, reflection, and adaptation.
By Wen-Fan Wang, TsaiHsuan Lin, Chi-Lan Yang, An-Ru Cheng, Bing-Yu Chen
Understanding how artworks are created requires reasoning about the iterative decisions, material operations, and contextual influences that shape artistic production. While recent generative AI systems can synthesize artworks with high fidelity, they primarily model distributions over finished artifacts rather than the creative processes underlying their creation.
arXiv:2607. 08331v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Understanding how artworks are created requires reasoning about the iterative decisions, material operations, and contextual influences that shape artistic production.
By Kaustubh Kumar, Ashutosh Ranjan, Vivek Srivastava, Blessin Varkey, Shirish Karande
arXiv:2605.20941v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Existing neural painting methods are target-driven: given a reference image, strokes are optimized to reconstruct it, fixing the outcome before pai...
By Yunge Wen, Yaluo Wang, Yuancheng Shen, Robert Krueger, Paul Pu Liang
arXiv:2608. 05026v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: High-quality annotation of artworks is essential for computational art research, yet extracting implicit semantics remains challenging due to the reliance on culturally grounded meanings and deep contextual knowledge behind the images.
By Xiaoyan Gu, Yifang Wang, Wenqing Zheng, Haozhong Liu, Yixia Zheng, Peiyi Jiang, Wenjie Ning, Wei Zhang, Wei Chen
RefDiT is a new framework for reference-guided image generation that addresses the shortcomings of previous methods when handling complex scenes with multiple objects. It introduces local region guidance by decomposing a single identifier token into attribute-level signals, allowing the model to learn correspondences between tokens and specific regions of a reference image. The approach incorporates a low-rank adapter (LoRA) within a diffusion transformer (DiT) to adjust the inference prompt based on user-provided guidance context, thereby enabling more precise local attribute control.
By Rameshwar Mishra, Srikrishna Karanam, A V Subramanyam
arXiv:2608.29644v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Attributing an artwork to an artist has traditionally relied on detailed visual observations and descriptions, known as stylistic analysis in art his...
By Marc S. Walton, Astrid Harth
arXiv:2412.00176v4 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: We explore whether pre-training on datasets with paintings is necessary for a model to learn an artistic style with only a few examples. To investi...
By Hui Ren, Joanna Materzynska, Rohit Gandikota, Giannis Daras, David Bau, Antonio Torralba
arXiv:2607. 10165v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Emotion-aware artistic image generation requires an image to match the input prompt, follow the specified artistic style, and convey the target emotion.
By Dexiang Hong, Yijie Guo, Weidong Chen, Xinyan Liu, Zixuan Zou, Zhendong Mao, Yongdong Zhang
WeAgent-MMGenEdit is a comprehensive framework for multimodal agentic image generation and editing that addresses the unreliability of current models when prompts require external world knowledge. It introduces a multimodal harness with persistent evidence management, a scalable data construction pipeline producing 23K supervised trajectories and 14.7K RL tasks, and a bilingual benchmark (WeBench-MMGenEdit) for knowledge-intensive generation and multi-image editing. Post‑training methods based on SFT and RL further refine the agent policy and image backend, enabling a 30B‑parameter policy to outperform similarly sized models and approach the performance of a 1T‑parameter agent.
By Hui Zhang, Zongkai Liu, Liqiang Niu, Juntao Liu, Han Li, Zhen Cao, Wenchao Chen, Chengduo Zhao, Fandong Meng