Improving Masked Style Transfer using Blended Partial Convolution

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05769v1
• Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2025 18:35:44 GMT
• Title: Improving Masked Style Transfer using Blended Partial Convolution
• Authors: Seyed Hadi Seyed, Ayberk Cansever, David Hart,
• Abstract summary: We propose a partial-convolution-based style transfer network that applies the style features exclusively to the region of interest.<n>We show that this visually and quantitatively improves stylization using examples from the SA-1B dataset.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Artistic style transfer has long been possible with the advancements of convolution- and transformer-based neural networks. Most algorithms apply the artistic style transfer to the whole image, but individual users may only need to apply a style transfer to a specific region in the image. The standard practice is to simply mask the image after the stylization. This work shows that this approach tends to improperly capture the style features in the region of interest. We propose a partial-convolution-based style transfer network that accurately applies the style features exclusively to the region of interest. Additionally, we present network-internal blending techniques that account for imperfections in the region selection. We show that this visually and quantitatively improves stylization using examples from the SA-1B dataset. Code is publicly available at https://github.com/davidmhart/StyleTransferMasked.

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