A hybrid scheme of texture synthesis for capturing macro & micro structures

In this paper we present a novel method of hybrid-scheme for texture synthesis. By the scheme, we capture the feature of textures in two levels. At the macro-structure level, we first generate a texton mask on the pattern from the original source texture, employed in the synthesis as a primary guidance for the patch-based sampling. And in the micro-structure level, we perform blending using a pixel-based synthesis method based on the grey-level texton mask within the boundary zones of the patches. As a result, our method may not only quickly capture the macro-structure of the source texture, with little overhead from simple interactive operation,, and at the same time, the micro-structure may be also nicely preserved in the synthesis by a pixel-based blending procedure. Experiments show that our solution in combining patch-based sampling and pixel-based sampling method based on texton masks is highly efficient for synthesizing large amount of textures with comprehensive structures.