Feature-Based Texture Synthesis

We introduce a new method for texture synthesis on regular and irregular example textures. In this paper, an enhanced patch-based algorithm is proposed to select patches with the best structural similarity and to avoid discontinuity at the boundary of adjacent patches. This new method utilizes a feature-weighted function to measure the structural similarity. A re-synthesis technique is presented to reduce the structural discontinuity. We conduct a comparison study to verify the proposed method. Preliminary experiments show that the proposed method can yield better results than other well-known methods for examples used in this study.