Understanding Mystery Behind Example-Based Image Synthesis

Abstract

This tutorial presents a concise overview of development in the field of example-based image synthesis that over the last two decades rapidly evolved into a powerful tool enabling the production of synthetic imagery often indistinguishable from the source exemplar.We discuss not only the basic algorithmic concepts but also their further improvements which lead to significant reduction of computational overhead as well as better visual quality. We also demonstrate numerous applications including texture synthesis, hole-filling, video completion, retargeting, reshuffling, morphing, melding, painting by feature, appearance transfer to fluid animations or artistic style transfer to 3D models and facial animations.