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Stroke Patches: Customizable Artistic Image Styling Using Regression

Published: January 6, 2026 | arXiv ID: 2601.03114v1

By: Ian Jaffray, John Bronskill

Potential Business Impact:

Makes pictures look like paintings with brush strokes.

Business Areas:
Image Recognition Data and Analytics, Software

We present a novel, regression-based method for artistically styling images. Unlike recent neural style transfer or diffusion-based approaches, our method allows for explicit control over the stroke composition and level of detail in the rendered image through the use of an extensible set of stroke patches. The stroke patch sets are procedurally generated by small programs that control the shape, size, orientation, density, color, and noise level of the strokes in the individual patches. Once trained on a set of stroke patches, a U-Net based regression model can render any input image in a variety of distinct, evocative and customizable styles.

Country of Origin
🇬🇧 United Kingdom

Repos / Data Links

Page Count
14 pages

Category
Computer Science:
Graphics