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Texture Synthesis on Near-regular Patterns
Head: Yanxi Liu
Contact: Yanxi Liu (yanxi@cs.cmu.edu)

Mailing address:
Carnegie Mellon University
Robotics Institute
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Associated center: VASC
Associated lab/group: Computational Symmetry

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This page last updated - February 2007.

Motivated by the low structural fidelity for near-regular textures in current texture synthesis algorithms, we propose and implement an alternative texture synthesis method for near-regular texture. We view such textures as statistical departures from regular patterns and believe that a thorough understanding of their structures in terms of their translation, rotation and reflection symmetries can enhance existing methods of texture synthesis. We demonstrate the perils of texture synthesis for near-regular texture and the promise of faithfully preserving the regularity as well as the randomness presented in a near-regular texture sample.

The movies below accompany the SIGGRAPH '04 "Near Regular Texture Analysis and Manipulation" paper:

• NRTAM.avi [110M5, divx 5.11 encoded]
• NRTAM.mp4 [68M9, QuickTime]
• NRTAM2.avi [97M6, divx 5.11 encoded]

Name - Title <Email Address>
• James H. Hays - PhD Student, CS <jhhays@cs.cmu.edu>
• [Home] Yanxi Liu - Adjunct Associate Research Professor <yanxi@cs.cmu.edu>
• [Home] Chenyu Wu - PhD Student, RI <chenyuwu@andrew.cmu.edu>

• A Lattice-based MRF Model for Dynamic Near-regular Texture Tracking
  W. Lin and Y. Liu
  IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 29, No. 5, May, 2007, pp. 777 - 792. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [6492 KB] copyrighted

• Quantitative Evaluation on Near Regular Texture Synthesis
  W. Lin, J.H. Hays, C. Wu, V. Kwatra, and Y. Liu
  Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR '06), Vol. 1, June, 2006, pp. 427 - 434. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [815 KB] copyrighted

• Discovering Texture Regularity as a Higher-Order Correspondence Problem
  J.H. Hays, M. Leordeanu, A.A. Efros, and Y. Liu
  9th European Conference on Computer Vision, May, 2006.
  Download: pdf [5335 KB] copyrighted

• Tracking Dynamic Near-regular Textures under Occlusion and Rapid Movements
  W. Lin and Y. Liu
  9th European Conference on Computer Vision, May, 2006.
  Download: pdf [4144 KB] copyrighted

• A Lattice-based MRF model for Dynamic Near-regular Texture Tracking and Manipulation
  W. Lin
  doctoral dissertation, tech. report CMU-RI-TR-05-58, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, December, 2005. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [27847 KB] copyrighted

• The Promise and Perils of Near-Regular Texture [pre-publication color version]
  Y. Liu, Y. Tsin, and W. Lin
  International Journal of Computer Vision, Vol. 62, No. 1-2, April, 2005, pp. 145 - 159. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [3392 KB], ps.gz [10214 KB] copyrighted

• The Promise and Perils of Near-Regular Texture [publication grayscale version]
  Y. Liu, Y. Tsin, and W. Lin
  International Journal of Computer Vision, Vol. 62, No. 1-2, April, 2005, pp. 145 - 159. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [2207 KB] copyrighted

• Near Regular Texture Analysis and Manipulation
  Y. Liu, W. Lin, and J.H. Hays
  ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2004), Vol. 23, No. 3, August, 2004, pp. 368 - 376. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [1256 KB] copyrighted

• A Comparison Study of Four Texture Synthesis Algorithms on Regular and Near-regular Textures
  W. Lin, J.H. Hays, C. Wu, V. Kwatra, and Y. Liu
  tech. report CMU-RI-TR-04-01, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, January, 2004. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [7380 KB] copyrighted

• Deformable Texture: the Irregular-Regular-Irregular Cycle
  Y. Liu and W. Lin
  Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Texture Analysis and Synthesis (Texture 2003), October, 2003, pp. 65 - 70. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [2031 KB] copyrighted