Geometric Style Transfer for Face Portraits

Geometric style transfer jointly stylizes the texture and geometry of a content image to better match a style image, which has attracted widespread attention due to its various applications. However, existing style transfer methods either primarily focus on texture and almost entirely ignore geometry, or have various drawbacks and are not suitable for Face Portraits. In the paper, We propose a new two-stage geometric style transfer method dedicated to face portraits, which simultaneously transfer both statistical and structural styles. Our network consists of Geometric deformation module (G) and Texture rendering module (T). G is trained with semantics image pairs, which has loose requirements on the training datasets. Besides, our flexible formulation also allows explicit user guidance and control of stylization tradeoffs. Experiments demonstrate that our method achieves state-of-the-art geometric style transfer for face portraits.