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: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
arXiv:2507. 17853v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent advances in text-to-image (T2I) generation have led to impressive visual results.
By Lifeng Chen, Jiner Wang, Zihao Pan, Beier Zhu, Xiaofeng Yang, Chi Zhang
arXiv:2608. 06751v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Artist-grounded image generation requires more than appending an artist name to a prompt.
By Kuan Xing, Ye Wang, Changyi Gan, Yuheng Li, Thao Nguyen, Yi Chang, Yilin Wang
arXiv:2608. 14435v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Frozen image embeddings from models such as CLIP are increasingly used to classify paintings by art-historical style, with high reported accuracy.
By Rory Ashton
Recent diffusion editors perform diverse instruction-based edits while conditioning on the source image at every denoising step. Yet persistent source-image conditioning can limit how fully an edit is executed and how natural the result appears, especially when the target scene diverges substantially from the input.
arXiv:2605. 31162v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Unconditional diffusion models offer powerful generative priors, yet steering them toward aesthetically enhanced outputs remains largely unexplored.
By Shreyansh Modi, Akshat Tomar, Aarush Aggarwal
arXiv:2607. 19344v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Controllable image generation remains challenging for creative professionals, who often require precise regional control over materials, object identities, and spatial arrangements that cannot be reliably achieved through text prompting alone.
By Rahul Sajnani, Yulia Gryaditskaya, Radom\'ir M\v{e}ch, Srinath Sridhar, Matheus Gadelha
Composition, the deliberate arrangement of visual elements, is central to how meaning, emotion, and aesthetic quality are conveyed in artwork, yet it remains among the least formalized dimensions of visual understanding. Prior work highlights a persistent gap in learning meaningful compositional representations, attributing it to semantic bias and suggesting that human-inspired approaches may be key.
Traditional Image Aesthetic Assessment (IAA) methods mainly rely on regressing absolute Mean Opinion Scores (MOS). However, such a paradigm overlooks the inherently dynamic nature of human aesthetic perception, which relies on subconscious comparison against implicit visual references.
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By Ahmed M. Abuzuraiq, Philippe Pasquier
arXiv:2608. 03050v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: What is music style?
By Jingwei Zhao, Gus Xia, Ziyu Wang, Ye Wang