Texture analysis and synthesis has been studied extensively by many vision and graphics researchers. A very useful concept in texture analysis is texton or the basic element of a texture image. However, it remains unclear how to define a texton despite the fact that Julesz proposed the term ”texton” more than twenty years ago. In this talk, I will propose a two-level statistical model with text...

We present a novel technique for texture mapping on arbitrary surfaces with minimal distortions, by preserving the local and global structure of the texture. The recent introduction of the fast marching method on triangulated surfaces [9], made it possible to compute geodesic distances in O(~ n lg ~ n) where ~ n is the number of triangles that represent the surface. We use this method to design...

The goal of this research was to develop algorithms for synthesis of specific textures in multi-spectral images. In plain terms, we started with an image of grass texture (64 by 64 pixels), in fact, 42 images of the same area in different spectral wavelengths (including the visible spectrum) (see Figure 1 for an example). The goal was to create a similar multispectral image, which would look li...

We present a novel method for texture synthesis on surfaces from examples. We consider a very general type of textures, including color, transparency and displacements. Our method synthesizes the texture directly on the surface, rather than synthesizing a texture image and then mapping it to the surface. The synthesized textures have the same qualitative visual appearance as the example texture...

A new method of texture modelling based on discrete distribution mixtures is proposed. Unlike some alternative approaches the statistical properties of textures are modelled by a discrete distribution mixture of product components. The univariate distributions in the products are represented in full generality by vectors of probabilities without any constraints. The texture analysis is made in ...

This paper describes a method for synthesizing natural textures that realistically matches given colour texture appearance. The novel texture synthesis method, which we call the roller, is based on the overlapping tiling and subsequent minimum error boundary cut. An optimal double toroidal patch is seamlessly repeated during the synthesis step. While the method allows only moderate texture comp...

In Chinese calligraphy cao shu is regarded as a kind of free form art which differs from other styles greatly in its less constrained strokes and brush textures. In this paper we present a framework for synthesizing cao shu realistically. In our system, we adopt different brush texture patches (BTPs) collected from hand-written artworks to represent the solid and hollow strokes appearing in cao...

In this paper we propose a new approach for mapping and blending textures on 3D geometries. The system starts from a 3D mesh which represents a real object and improves this model with pictorial detail. Texture detail is acquired via a common photographic process directly from the real object. These images are then registered and stitched on the 3D mesh, by integrating them into a single standa...

Amethod is proposed for filling in missing areas of degraded images through explicit structure reconstruction, followed by texture synthesis. The structure being reconstructed represents meaningful edges from the image, which are traced inside the artefact. The structure reconstruction step relies on different properties of the edges touching the artefact and of the areas between them, in order...

This paper addresses the synthesis of near-regular textures, i.e. textures that consist of a regular global structure plus subtle yet very characteristic stochastic irregularities. Such textures are difficult to synthesize due to the complementary characteristics of these structures. In this paper, we propose a method which we call Random Sampling and Gap Filling (RSGF) to synthesize near-regul...