arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 2

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.

By Junyao Gao, Sibo Liu, Jiaxing Li, Yanan Sun, Weidong Zhang, Cairong Zhao, Jun Zhang
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
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 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