Title
Evaluate and improve the quality of neural style transfer
Abstract
Recent studies have made tremendous progress in neural style transfer (NST) and various methods have been advanced. However, evaluating and improving the stylization quality remain two important open challenges. Committed to these two aspects, in this paper, we first decompose the quality of style transfer into three quantifiable factors, i.e., the content fidelity (CF), global effects (GE) and local patterns (LP). Then, two novel approaches are further presented for exploiting these factors to improve the stylization quality. The first, named cascade style transfer (CST), utilizes the factors to guide the cascade combination of existing NST methods to absorb their merits and avoid their own shortcomings. The second, dubbed multi-objective network (MO-Net), directly optimizes these factors to balance their performance and achieves more harmonious stylized results. Extensive experiments demonstrate the effectiveness and superiority of our proposed factors and methods.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1016/j.cviu.2021.103203
Computer Vision and Image Understanding
Keywords
DocType
Volume
41A05,41A10,65D05,65D17
Journal
207
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1
1077-3142
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Zhizhong Wang134.12
Lei Zhao263.82
Haibo Chen301.69
Zhiwen Zuo433.11
Ailin Li504.39
Wei Xing66416.54
Dongming Lu775.55