Texture Synthesis by Non-parametric Sampling / Image Quilting

for Texture Synthesis & Transferby

Efros and Leung / Efros and Freeman ICCV ’99 / SIGGRAPH ’01

Presentation by Gyozo Gidofalvi

Computer Science and Engineering Department

University of California, San Diego

gyozo@cs.ucsd.edu

November 15, 2001

Outline

• Background information on texture• Growing texture pixel-by-pixel using a simple

non-parametric method• Image quilting: a very simple texture synthesis

algorithm• Simple extension to image quilting for texture

transfer • Applications• Summary

What is a texture?

“What features and statistics are characteristics of a texture pattern, so that texture pairs that share the same features and statistics cannot be told apart by pre-attentive human visual perception?” ---- Julesz 1960s-1980s

• The concept of texture is intuitively obvious but has no precise definition: something consisting of mutually related elements.

• On can describe texture by: tone and structure

• Tone is based on pixel intensity properties

• Structure describes spatial relationships of primitives

• Texture can be described by the number and types of primitives and by their spatial relationships.

Texture Analysis Techniques

• Statistical methods: gather information about textures by exploiting pixel first and second order statistics.

• Structural methods: describe textures as composed of well defined texture primitives (texels), which are placed according to some syntactic rules.

• Model based methods: construct a generative or stochastic model of textures, called random field models.

• Transform methods: represent an image in a new form, in which the characteristics of the texture become more easily accessible. Some examples include: Fourier-transforms and multi-resolution methods.

What is texture synthesis?

Given an input sample texture synthesize a texture that is sufficiently different from the given sample texture, yet appears perceptually to be generated by the same underlying stochastic process.

True (infinite) texture

SYNTHESIS

generated image

input image

Classification of texture

Traditionally textures has been classified as:

• regular : repeated texels

• stochastic without explicit texels

• Most real world textures are mixtures of these basic types

• Challenge is to model the whole spectrum: from regular to stochastic texture

regular stochastic both?

Some previous approaches

• multi-scale filter response histogram matching [Heeger and Bergen,’95]• sampling from conditional distribution over multiple scales [DeBonet,’97]

• filter histograms with Gibbs sampling [Zhu et al,’98]

• matching 1st and 2nd order properties of wavelet coefficients [Simoncelli and Portilla,’98]

New method by Efros et al.

• goals:

• preserve local structure

• model wide range of real textures

• ability to do constrained synthesis

• method:

• inspired by N-gram language model of Shannon, texture is modelled as Markov Random Field (MRF)

• texture is “grown” one pixel at a time

• conditional pdf of a pixel given its neighbors synthesized thus far is estimated by searching the the sample image for similar neighborhoods

N-gram model of the English language

Shannon: Model language as a generalized Markov chain, where a set of n letters (words) completely determine the pdf of the next letter (word).

Results (using alt.singles corpus) [Mark V. ShaneyMark V. Shaney]:

"One morning I shot an elephant in my arms and kissed him.”

"I spent an interesting evening recently with a grain of salt“

Assuming Markov property, texture can be modeled as a MRF

Synthesizing one pixel

finite sample image

Generated image

p

SAMPLE

To synthesize a pixel p, search the sample image for pixels with similar neighborhood to p, construct a histogram for the distribution of these pixels, finally sample this distribution to obtain a value for p.

Similarity is based on the Gaussian-weighted sum squared difference, to preserve local structure.

Growing texture on pixel at the time

•User defined window size indicates the randomness of the texture

•To grow from from scratch a 3x3 random seed from the sample is used

• Unless no close match is found pixels with most neighbors are synthesized first

• Importance of Gaussian-weighted similarity measure

Neighborhood window size / Randomness parameter

More Synthesis Results

Increasing window size

Results

aluminium wirereptile skin

More results

French canvas rafia weave

More resultswood granite

More resultswhite bread brick wall

Constrained synthesis

Visual comparison

[DeBonet, ‘97] Our approachSimple tiling

Synthetic tilabletexture

Failure cases

Growing garbage Verbatim copying

Homage to Shannon

Constrained text synthesis

What we have so far…

An algorithm that is:

• simple

• models a wide range of real-world textures

• naturally well-suited for constrained texture synthesis

but it:

• very slow

• sometimes “grows garbage”

How can it be improved?

Why only synthesize on pixel at the time?

• For most complex textures only a very few pixels actually have a choice of values wasted search effort

• Example: Pattern of circles on the plane

• Once the algorithm starts synthesizing a particular circle, the values of the remaining pixels are completely determined.

• Unit of synthesis should be more than just a pixel patch

• Texture synthesis would be like jigsaw puzzle

• Questions:

• What are the patches?

• How to put them together?

Chaos Mosaic [Xu, Guo & Shum, ‘00]

input

idea result

Used in Lapped Textures [Praun et.al,’00]

Process: 1) tile input image; 2) pick random blocks and place them in random locations 3) Smooth edges

Chaos Mosaic [Xu, Guo & Shum, ‘00]

input

result

The approach works well on stochastic textures but fails on structures.

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Image Quilting

Input image

non-parametricsampling

BB

• Idea: let’s combine random block placement of Chaos Mosaic with spatial constraints of Efros & Leung

• Unit of synthesis is a block

• Exactly the same but now we want P(B|N(B))

• Much faster: synthesize all pixels in a block at once

Synthesizing a block

Input texture

B1 B2

Random placement of blocks

block

B1 B2

Neighboring blocksconstrained by overlap

B1 B2

Minimal errorboundary cut

min. error boundary

Minimal error boundary

overlapping blocks vertical boundary

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overlap error

Image Quilting algorithm

1. Pick size of block and size of overlap

2. Synthesize blocks in raster order

1. Search input texture for block that satisfies overlap constraints (above and left)

Easy to optimize using NN search [Liang et.al., ’01]

2. Paste new block into resulting texture

use dynamic programming to compute minimal error boundary cut

input image

Portilla & Simoncelli

Wei & Levoy Image Quilting

Xu, Guo & Shum

Comparison

Portilla & Simoncelli

Wei & Levoy Image Quilting

Xu, Guo & Shum

input image

Comparison

Portilla & Simoncelli

Wei & Levoy Image Quilting

input image

Homage to Shannon

Xu, Guo & Shum

Failures(Chernobyl

Harvest)

Texture transfer

Take the texture from one object and “paint” it onto another object

• This requires separating texture and shape

• That’s HARD, but we can cheat

• Assume we can capture shape by boundary and rough shading

IdeaIdea: just add another constraint when sampling: similarity to : just add another constraint when sampling: similarity to underlying image at that spotunderlying image at that spot

CorrespondenceCorrespondence can be based on: image intensity, blured image can be based on: image intensity, blured image intensity, local image orientation angles, etc…intensity, local image orientation angles, etc…

There is a There is a tradeofftradeoff between the legitimacy of synthesized texture between the legitimacy of synthesized texture and the correctness of the correspondence mapping.and the correctness of the correspondence mapping.

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parmesan

rice

Sourcetexture

Target image

Sourcecorrespondenc

eimage

Targetcorrespondence image

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Applications of texture synthesis and transfer

• Occlusion fill-in

– for 3D reconstruction

• region-based image and video compression

– a small sample of textured region is stored

• Texturing non-developable objects

– growing texture directly on surface

• Motion synthesis

• Synthesizing and transferring music and environmental sounds?

• Rendering object in a different style without explicit 3D information

SummaryWe have seen:

– A non-parametric method that grows texture pixel-by-pixel based on neighborhood statistics of pixels gathered from a sample texture

• Conceptually simple

• Spatial locality principle lends itself to constraint synthesis

– An image based method that where images are synthesized by stitching together patches of existing images

– A simple method based on similarity obtained by correspondence for texture transfer and rendering texture to objects that does not need explicit 3D information

Acknowledgements

Alexei Efros and his fellow researchers for sharing their slides.

References and Related LiteratureA. A. Efros and W. T. Freeman. Image Quilting for Texture Synthesis and Transfer, SIGGRAPH 01.

A. A. Efros and T. K. Leung. Texture Synthesis by Non-parametric Sampling. In ICCV 99.

S. Livens. Image Analysis for Material Characterization, 1998. http://www.ruca.ua.ac.be/visielab/livens/phd1.ps.gz

C. E. Shannon, A mathematical theory of computation. Bell Sys. Tech. Journal, 27, 1948.

M. Ashikhmin. Synthesizing natural textures. In Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics, 2001.

J. S. De Bonet. Multiresolution sampling procedure for analysis and synthesis of texture images. In SIGGRAPH 97, pages 361-368, 1997.

D. D. Garber. Computational Models for Texture Analysis and Texture Synthesis. PhD thesis, University of Southern California, Image Processing Institute, 1981.

P. Harrison. A non-hierarchical procedure for re-synthesis of complex textures. In WSCG 2001 Conference Proceedings, pages 190-197, 2001.

D. J. Heeger and J. R. Bergen. Pyramid based texture analysis/synthesis. In SIGGRAPH 95, pages 229-238, 1995.

A Hertzmann, C. E. Jacobs, D. Oliver, B. Curless, and D. H. Salesin. Image analogies. In SIGGRAPH 01, 2001.

L. Liang , C. Liu, Y, Xu, B. Guo, and H.-Y. Shum. Real-time texture synthesis by patch-based sampling. Technical Report MSR-TR-2001-40, Microsoft Research, March 2001.

Y. XU, B. Guo, and H.-Y. Shum. Chaos Mosaic: Fast and memory efficient texture synthesis. Technical Report MSR-TR-2000-32, Microsoft Research, April 2000.