Avatar-Net: Multi-scale Zero-shot Style Transfer by Feature Decoration

Understand

Zero-shot artistic style transfer is an important image synthesis problem aiming at transferring arbitrary style into content images.

• However, the trade-off between the generalization and efficiency in existing methods impedes a high quality zero-shot style transfer in real-time.
• In this paper, we resolve this dilemma and propose an efficient yet effective Avatar-Net that enables visually plausible multi-scale transfer for arbitrary style.
• The key ingredient of our method is a style decorator that makes up the content features by semantically aligned style features from an arbitrary style image, which does not only holistically match their feature distributions but also preserve detailed style patterns in the decorated features.