Industrial Style Transfer with Large-scale Geometric Warping and Content Preservation

TL;DR

This paper introduces InST, a neural style transfer method that combines large-scale geometric warping and content preservation to efficiently generate stylized industrial product images, advancing industrial design visualization.

Contribution

It presents a novel neural style transfer framework with large-scale geometric warping and interest-preserving texture transfer, tailored for industrial product design applications.

Findings

Achieves state-of-the-art results on industrial design tasks

Effectively preserves content while applying artistic styles

First to extend neural style transfer to industrial product appearance creation

Abstract

We propose a novel style transfer method to quickly create a new visual product with a nice appearance for industrial designers' reference. Given a source product, a target product, and an art style image, our method produces a neural warping field that warps the source shape to imitate the geometric style of the target and a neural texture transformation network that transfers the artistic style to the warped source product. Our model, Industrial Style Transfer (InST), consists of large-scale geometric warping (LGW) and interest-consistency texture transfer (ICTT). LGW aims to explore an unsupervised transformation between the shape masks of the source and target products for fitting large-scale shape warping. Furthermore, we introduce a mask smoothness regularization term to prevent the abrupt changes of the details of the source product. ICTT introduces an interest regularization term to maintain important contents of the warped product when it is stylized by using the art style image. Extensive experimental results demonstrate that InST achieves state-of-the-art performance on multiple visual product design tasks, e.g., companies' snail logos and classical bottles (please see Fig. 1). To the best of our knowledge, we are the first to extend the neural style transfer method to create industrial product appearances. Project page: \ulr{https://jcyang98.github.io/InST/home.html}. Code available at: \url{https://github.com/jcyang98/InST}.