Reviews: Universal Style Transfer via Feature Transforms

The paper presents a very simple idea for performing style transfer: simply use a normal auto-encoder, whiten the features of the content image and color them with the statistics from the features of the style image. It's well written, the idea are is presented clearly and the evaluation is as good as can be expected on style transfer. I know a few works in this area, but I'm not following precisely the latest developments, and there has been a very high number of paper on this topic in the last year, so it is hard for me to evaluate the novelty and interest of this paper. Technically, it seems to me a marginal improvement over [14]. In term of results, I find style transfer work extremely difficult to evaluate and this paper was not an exception: it's clearly close to the state of the art, it's not clear to me it's really better than it's competitors.