SofGAN: A Portrait Image Generator with Dynamic Styling

Automatic Portrait Segmentation for Image Stylization

Portraiture is a major art form in both photography and painting. In most instances, artists seek to make the subject stand out from its surrounding, for instance, by making it brighter or sharper. In the digital world, similar effects can be achieved by processing a portrait image with photographic or painterly filters that adapt to the semantics of the image. While many successful user-guided...

Dynamic Testing of Generator Protection Using a Model Generator Platform

An image processing of a Raphael's portrait of Leonardo

In one of his paintings, the School of Athens, Raphael is depicting Leonardo da Vinci as the philosopher Plato. Some image processing tools can help us in comparing this portrait with two Leonardo's portraits, considered as self-portraits. The "Scuola di Atene" is one of the most famous paintings by Raphael, the Italian Renaissance artist. Painted between 1510 and 1511, this fresco decorates th...

Regularization is model styling

Regularization is a method used in mathematics and statistics to deal with insufficient information. The reader must supply additional information in the form of an operator. From where is this operator to come, and what does it mean? It amounts to us, as practitioners, specifying a “style” of model. Where the model is a signal or an image, it amounts to specifying one weighting function in phy...

A Framework of Product Styling Platform Approach: Styling as Intangible Modules

This exploratory paper argues that pleasure-oriented product development with manufacturing flexibility is the next challenge of mass customization if seeking pleasure is the nature of mankind. Preferable product style of a fashion trend is widely accepted to visually enhance a product to satisfy today’s consumer demands. Considerable work remains to be done to integrate product styling (proces...