arXiv Computer Vision

MegaStyle++: Scaling Image Style Space through Hierarchical Style Definition

MegaStyle++ introduces a hierarchical definition of image style, ranging from overall style identity to fine‑grained visual attributes, to provide a more structured, transferable, and interpretable representation. Using this definition, the authors refined the MegaStyle annotation pipeline and released MegaStyle++‑8M, a dataset with 150K style identities, 1M fine‑grained prompts, and 8M stylized images. Analyses show that the hierarchical approach expands style diversity and semantic breadth while accurately capturing the intrinsic visual style of reference images.

arXiv Computer Vision
5d ago

Abstraction in Style: Beyond Texture and Color

The paper introduces Abstraction in Style (AiS), a generative framework that separates structural abstraction from visual stylization. AiS first creates an abstraction proxy that reinterprets a target image’s structure according to the abstraction logic of a given style, then renders this proxy to produce a stylized output. By learning transformations from visual exemplars without explicit geometric supervision, AiS enables a broader range of stylistic transformations, improves controllability, and allows more expressive stylization.

By Min Lu, Yuanfeng He, Anthony Chen, Jianhuang He, Pu Wang, Daniel Cohen-Or, Hui Huang
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 15

Abstract-LoRA: Unlocking Single-Image Style Transfer through Targeted U-Net Block Training

Abstract‑LoRA introduces a lightweight LoRA training approach that targets specific U‑Net blocks in diffusion models to improve single‑image style transfer. By refining block selection, adding more blocks, and using clustering‑based style abstraction, it better disentangles and balances style and content compared to prior methods like B‑LoRA. Experiments show that the method produces more harmonious artistic images while quantitatively preserving both style and content.

By Xinglin Hu
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Aug 12

Through Van Gogh's Eyes: Global Style Transfer with Diffusion Mod

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 AI
Jul 7

HCSU: A Dataset and Benchmark for Fine-Grained Historical Calligraphy Style Understanding

arXiv:2607. 04147v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Automated fine-grained perception of calligraphy styles--a task vital to cultural heritage preservation--remains a critical challenge for Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs), largely constrained by existing datasets that suffer from modal mixture and flattened labels.

By Yinsheng Yao, Yan Liu, Chen Ye
arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 8

Perceptually Aligned Evaluation of Style Transfer

arXiv:2610.10003v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Style transfer lacks a reliable evaluation standard: ground truth is inherently ill-defined, and existing automatic metrics often fail to reflect human...

By Yang Deng, Eleftherios Ioannou, David Mould, Steve Maddock, Paul L. Rosin, Yu-Kun Lai
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 11

SenseNova-U1.5: Towards Native Unified Visual Intelligence

SenseNova-U1.5 is an 8B‑MoT native unified multimodal model that can understand, reason about, and generate visual content without using an encoder or VAE. It improves visual fidelity and text rendering through spatially coherent patch reconstruction, large‑scale training on curated generation and editing data, and native resolutions up to 4K. Post‑training, specialized experts for visual aesthetics, bilingual text rendering, infographic generation, and image editing are optimized and distilled into a multi‑expert framework, yielding advances in image fidelity, complex composition, multi‑reference editing, and instruction following.

By Haiwen Diao, Jiahao Wang, Chenjing Ding, Hanming Deng, Jiangnan Chen, Ruixi Zhang, Ruohui Wang, Wenwen Tong, Xiangyu Fan, Yubo Wang, Yue Zhu, Yuwei Niu, Zhengqi Bai, Zhiqian Lin, Zhitao Yang, Zhongang Cai, Bo Yang, Chen Feng, Chengguang Lv, Guangjia Liu, Guanlin Wang, Hanyu Zhang, Haojia Yu, Hongcan Xiao, Hongli Wang, Huan Wu, Huaping Zhong, Jian Fang, Jianan Fan, Jiaqi Li, Jiefan Lu, Jing Zuo, Jingcheng Ni, Junxiang Xu, Linjun Dai, Mutian Xu, Peishen Yan, Penghao Wu, Ruijie Mao, Ruisi Wang, Shihao Bai, Shuang Yang, Shuya Yang, Shuyan Zheng, Silei Wu, Siying Li, Tao Chu, Tianbo Zhong, Tongxi Zhou, Weichao Luo, Weichen Fan, Wenhao Jia, Wenjie Gao, Xiangli Kong, Yan Li, Yang Yong, Zimo Wen, Zixuan Qian, Wenxiu Sun, Ruihao Gong, Quan Wang, Lewei Lu, Lei Yang, Ziwei Liu, Dahua Lin