Semantic Style Creation

Visual style transfer involves combining the content of one image with the style of another, and recent work has produced some compelling results. This paper proposes a related task that requires additional system intelligence and autonomy—that of style creation. Rather than using the style of an existing source image, the goal is to have the system autonomously create a rendering style based on a simple (text- based) semantic description. Results demonstrate the system’s ability to autonomously create interesting, semantically appropriate styles that can be applied for image rendering.