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Splicing ViT Features for Semantic Appearance Transfer [Splice is a method for semantic appearance transfer, as described in Splicing ViT Features for Semantic Appearance Transfer (link to paper).
Given two input images—a source structure image and a target appearance image–our method generates a new image in which the structure of the source image is preserved, while the visual appearance of the target image is transferred in a semantically aware manner. That is, objects in the structure image are “painted” with the visual appearance of semantically related objects in the appearance image. Our method leverages a self-supervised, pre-trained ViT model as an external semantic prior. This allows us to train our generator only on a single input image pair, without any additional information (e.g., segmentation/correspondences), and without adversarial training. Thus, our framework can work across a variety of objects and scenes, and can generate high quality results in high resolution (e.g., HD).
Getting Started
Installation
git clone https://github.com/omerbt/Splice.git
pip install -r requirements.txt
Run examples
Run the following command to start training
python train.py --dataroot datasets/cows
Intermediate results will be saved to
during optimization. The frequency of saving intermediate results is indicated in the save_epoch_freq
flag of the configuration.
Sample Results
Citation
@article{Splice2022,
author = {Tumanyan, Narek
and Bar-Tal, Omer
and Bagon, Shai
and Dekel, Tali
},
title = {Splicing ViT Features for Semantic Appearance Transfer},
journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2201.00424},
year = {2022}
}