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Feature-preserving procedural texture

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This paper presents how to synthesize a texture in a procedural way that preserves the features of the input exemplar. The exemplar is analyzed in both spatial and frequency domains to be decomposed into feature and non-feature parts. Then, the non-feature parts are reproduced as a procedural noise, whereas the features are independently synthesized. They are combined to output a non-repetitive texture that also preserves the exemplar’s features. The proposed method allows the user to control the extent of extracted features and also enables a texture to edited quite effectively.

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This work was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) Grant funded by the Korea government (MSIP) (No. NRF-2016R1A2B3014319) and by Institute for Information and Communications Technology Promotion (IITP) Grant funded by the Korea government (MSIP) (No. R0115-16-1011).

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Kang, H., Han, J. Feature-preserving procedural texture. Vis Comput 33, 761–768 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00371-017-1375-8

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