A collection of research papers, datasets, and resources related to Style Transfer across various domains. This repository offers a curated list of methods, from traditional techniques to the more recent diffusion models, to provide insights into the ongoing advancements in style transfer.
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From:S2WAT: Image Style Transfer via Hierarchical Vision Transformer using Strips Window Attention
- 📚 Traditional Methods: Neural style transfer and its variants
- 🖼️ GAN-based Methods: Generative approaches for style transfer
- 🎯 VAE-based Methods: Variational methods for style manipulation
- 🌟 Diffusion-based Methods: Latest advances in diffusion models
- 📊 Applications: Portrait, Video, 3D, Text style transfer
- 💾 Datasets: Curated datasets for style transfer research
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Methods
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Applications
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Datasets
Title |
Year |
Publish |
Paper |
Code |
Neural Style Transfer (NST) |
2015 |
CVPR |
paper |
- |
Fast Style Transfer |
2016 |
ECCV |
paper |
code |
Texture Net |
2016 |
arXiv |
paper |
code |
Instance Normalization |
2016 |
arXiv |
paper |
code |
Universal Style Transfer |
2017 |
NIPS |
paper |
- |
Light-weight Style Transfer |
2017 |
CVPR |
paper |
code |
Arbitrary Style Transfer in Real-time with Adaptive Instance Normalization |
2017 |
ICCV |
paper |
code |
Histogram Loss |
2017 |
CVPR |
paper |
code |
Multimodal Style Transfer (AdaIN Extension) |
2018 |
CVPR |
paper |
code |
Avatar-Net |
2018 |
CVPR |
paper |
code |
NST-MetaNet |
2018 |
CVPR |
|
- |
AMST |
2019 |
CVPR |
paper |
- |
SEAN |
2020 |
CVPR |
paper |
code |
AdaAttN |
2021 |
ICCV |
paper |
code |
ArtFlow |
2021 |
CVPR |
paper |
code |
CLIPstyler |
2021 |
CVPR |
paper |
code |
Style Transfer by Rigid Alignment in Neural Net Feature Space |
2021 |
CVPR |
paper |
- |
Content and style disentanglement for artistic style transfer |
2022 |
ICCV |
paper |
code |
Region-controlled Style Transfer |
2023 |
arXiv |
paper |
- |
Optimal Image Transport on Sparse Dictionaries |
2023 |
arXiv |
paper |
- |
Puff-Net: Efficient Style Transfer with Pure Content and Style Feature Fusion Network |
2024 |
CVPR |
paper |
code |
S2WAT: Image Style Transfer via Hierarchical Vision Transformer using Strips Window Attention |
2024 |
AAAI |
paper |
code |
Extending user control for image stylization using hierarchical style transfer networks |
2024 |
Heliyon |
paper |
- |
Relu-oscillator: Chaotic vgg10 model for real-time neural style transfer on painting au- thentication |
2024 |
ESWA |
paper |
- |
AEANet: Affinity Enhanced Attentional Networks for Arbitrary Style Transfer |
2024 |
arXiv |
paper |
- |
Artistic Neural Style Transfer Algorithms with Activation Smoothing |
2024 |
arXiv |
paper |
- |
StyleMamba |
2024 |
arXiv |
paper |
code |
Title |
Year |
Publish |
Paper |
Code |
VAE |
2013 |
ICLR |
paper |
- |
Conditional VAE (CVAE) |
2015 |
NeurIPS |
paper |
- |
Hierarchical VAE |
2016 |
NeurIPS |
paper |
- |
β-VAE |
2017 |
ICLR |
paper |
- |
VQ-VAE |
2017 |
NeurIPS |
paper |
- |
InfoVAE (MMD-VAE) |
2017 |
arXiv |
[paper] |
- |
WAE |
2017 |
ICLR |
[paper] |
- |
FactorVAE |
2018 |
ICML |
[paper] |
- |
DIP-VAE |
2018 |
ICLR |
[paper] |
- |
β-TCVAE |
2018 |
ICML |
[paper] |
- |
BigVAE |
2019 |
ICLR |
[paper] |
- |
VQ-VAE-2 |
2019 |
NeurIPS |
[paper] |
- |
NVAE |
2020 |
NeurIPS |
[paper] |
- |
Parallel VAE |
2020 |
ICML |
[paper] |
- |
StyleVAE |
2021 |
CVPR |
[paper] |
- |
Score-VAE |
2021 |
NeurIPS |
[paper] |
- |
Distilled-VAE |
2022 |
ICML |
[paper] |
- |
Masked-VAE |
2023 |
CVPR |
[paper] |
- |
DynamicVAE |
2023 |
AAAI |
[paper] |
- |
RFE-DiffSketch |
2024 |
arXiv |
[paper] |
- |
Title |
Year |
Publish |
Paper |
Code |
DDIM |
2020 |
NeurIPS |
paper |
code |
IDDPM |
2021 |
ICML |
paper |
- |
SBGMLS |
2021 |
NeurIPS |
paper |
- |
SBGM-SDE |
2021 |
ICML |
paper |
- |
MLT-SBDM |
2021 |
NeurIPS |
paper |
- |
SDDMDSS |
2021 |
NeurIPS |
paper |
- |
DiffusionCLIP |
2022 |
CVPR |
paper |
code |
HRIS-LDM |
2022 |
CVPR |
paper |
code |
DPM-Solver |
2022 |
NeurIPS |
paper |
code |
SBGM-CDLD |
2022 |
- |
- |
- |
VQDM-TIS |
2022 |
CVPR |
- |
- |
CCDF-SC |
2022 |
CVPR |
- |
- |
PNM-DMM |
2022 |
- |
- |
- |
ASM-ISIG |
2022 |
- |
- |
- |
StyleDiffusion |
2023 |
- |
paper |
- |
gDDIM |
2023 |
- |
paper |
- |
FS-DM-EI |
2023 |
- |
- |
- |
DACDM |
2023 |
- |
- |
- |
StyleID |
2023 |
- |
paper |
code |
PortraitDiff |
2024 |
- |
paper |
code |
CMCDM |
2024 |
- |
- |
- |
SGAT-DM |
2024 |
- |
- |
- |
CFM-Velocity |
2024 |
- |
- |
- |
ADM-MP |
2024 |
- |
- |
- |
HEDSDM |
2024 |
- |
- |
- |
SLDM |
2024 |
- |
- |
- |
REDAP |
2024 |
- |
- |
- |
ARTID |
2024 |
- |
- |
- |
TiNO-Edit |
2024 |
- |
- |
- |
IDIS-CP |
2024 |
- |
- |
- |
SCEPTER |
2024 |
- |
paper |
code |
MagicFace |
2024 |
- |
paper |
code |
InstantID |
2024 |
- |
paper |
code |
CreativeSynth |
2024 |
- |
paper |
code |
B-LoRA |
2024 |
- |
paper |
code |
DEADiff |
2024 |
- |
- |
- |
DRL |
2024 |
- |
- |
- |
StyleTokenizer |
2024 |
- |
paper |
code |
PFGM |
2022 |
NeurIPS |
paper |
- |
VP-DGM-SM |
2021 |
ICLR |
paper |
- |
Frido-FPD |
2022 |
- |
paper |
- |
GLIDE |
2022 |
ICLR |
paper |
- |
DreamBooth |
2023 |
ICLR |
paper |
code |
UniTune |
2023 |
- |
paper |
- |
RealCompo |
2024 |
- |
paper |
- |
EditWorld |
2024 |
- |
paper |
- |
IterComp |
2024 |
- |
paper |
- |
AdaptiveDiffusion |
2024 |
- |
paper |
- |
Step-Adaptive Training |
2024 |
- |
paper |
- |
AdaDiff |
2024 |
- |
paper |
- |
MDT |
2024 |
- |
paper |
- |
U-ViT |
2023 |
- |
paper |
- |
DiffiT |
2024 |
- |
paper |
- |
FastDiff 2 |
2023 |
- |
paper |
- |
HLDM-TFIST |
2024 |
- |
paper |
- |
ZeroShotCL |
2023 |
- |
paper |
- |
MTID-MLLM |
2024 |
- |
paper |
- |
MUMU |
2024 |
- |
paper |
- |
Rectified Diffusion |
2024 |
- |
paper |
- |
Title |
Year |
Publish |
Paper |
Code |
Sequence to Better Sequence |
2017 |
ICML |
paper |
code |
Toward Controlled Generation of Text |
2017 |
- |
paper |
code |
Style Transfer from Non-Parallel Text |
2017 |
NeurIPS |
paper |
code |
Adversarially Regularized Autoencoders |
2018 |
- |
paper |
code |
Delete, Retrieve, Generate |
2018 |
- |
paper |
code |
Style Transfer Through Back-Translation |
2018 |
- |
paper |
code |
Disentangled Representation Learning |
2019 |
- |
paper |
code |
Learning Sentiment Memories |
2018 |
- |
paper |
code |
Unsupervised Controllable Text |
2019 |
- |
paper |
code |
Dual Reinforcement Learning |
2019 |
- |
paper |
code |
Title |
Year |
Publish |
Paper |
Code |
One-Shot Domain Adaptation |
2020 |
CVPR |
paper |
- |
Meta Face Recognition |
2020 |
- |
paper |
code |
Cross-Domain Document Detection |
2020 |
CVPR |
paper |
code |
StereoGAN |
2020 |
CVPR |
paper |
- |
Domain Adaptation for Dehazing |
2020 |
CVPR |
paper |
- |
PointDAN |
2019 |
- |
paper |
code |
GCAN |
2019 |
CVPR |
paper |
- |
DCAN |
2020 |
- |
paper |
code |
Dataset |
Year |
Size |
Description |
Link |
Danbooru2017 |
2017 |
1.9TB, 2.94M images |
Anime |
link |
Chinese Style Transfer |
2018 |
1000 content, 100 style images |
Chinese Painting |
link |
Stylized ImageNet |
2018 |
~134GB |
Style Transfer |
link |
WikiArt |
2018 |
42,129 images |
Style, Artist, Genre |
link |
FFHQ |
2019 |
70,000 images |
Human Faces |
link |
Dark Zurich Dataset |
2019 |
8,779 images |
Night, Twilight, Day |
link |
Comic Faces |
2020 |
20K images |
Paired Synthetic Comics |
link |
iFakeFaceDB |
2020 |
87,000 images |
Face Images |
link |
Ukiyo-e Faces |
2020 |
5,209 images |
Aligned Ukiyo-e Faces |
link |
DFFD |
2020 |
299,039 images |
Face Manipulation |
link |
MetFaces |
2020 |
1,336 images |
Artistic Faces |
link |
AAHQ |
2021 |
25,000 images |
Artistic Faces |
link |
StyleGAN Human |
2022 |
40K+ images |
Human Generation |
link |
DiffusionDB |
2022 |
14M images |
Text-to-image |
link |
4SKST |
2023 |
25 color, 100 sketches |
Sketch Style |
link |
JourneyDB |
2023 |
4.4M images |
Multimodal Vision |
link |
DiffusionFace |
2024 |
600,000 images |
Face Forgery |
link |
Trailer Faces HQ |
2024 |
187K faces |
Facial Expressions |
link |
StyleShot |
2024 |
- |
Style Transfer |
link |
Dataset |
Year |
Size |
Description |
Link |
UADFV |
2018 |
100 videos |
Video Style Transfer |
link |
Deepfake-TIMIT |
2018 |
960 videos |
Face Recognition |
link |
DFFD |
2019 |
300 videos |
Diverse Fake Face |
link |
Celeb-DF |
2020 |
408 original videos |
DeepFake |
link |
DFDC |
2020 |
100,000 clips |
DeepFake Detection |
link |
FaceForensics++ |
2019 |
6000 videos |
Swapped Face |
link |
ForgeryNet |
2021 |
221,247 videos |
Forgery Analysis |
link |
FFIW-10K |
2021 |
10,000 videos |
Face Forgery |
link |
Wild Deepfake |
2024 |
7,314 sequences |
Deepfake Detection |
link |
Dataset |
Year |
Size |
Description |
Link |
100STYLE |
2022 |
4M frames |
Stylized Motion Capture |
link |
Motiondataset |
2023 |
36,673 frames |
3D Motion |
link |
Dataset |
Year |
Size |
Description |
Link |
Touchdown |
2020 |
9,326 instructions |
Navigation |
link |
Yelp |
2020 |
6.99M comments |
NLP Corpus |
link |
YAFC Corpus |
2018 |
Largest stylistic corpus |
Style Transfer |
link |
ParaDetox |
2020 |
10,000 toxic sentences |
Detoxification |
link |
Title |
Year |
Publish |
Paper |
Code |
STaDA |
2019 |
VISIGRAPP |
paper |
- |
CycleGAN-Emotion Augmentation |
2019 |
VISIGRAPP |
paper |
- |
Cross-Domain NST Augmentation |
2019 |
arXiv |
paper |
- |
AugMix |
2019 |
arXiv |
paper |
code |
InstaBoost |
2019 |
arXiv |
paper |
code |
CutMix |
2019 |
arXiv |
paper |
code |
Parallel Formality Augmentation |
2020 |
ACL |
paper |
- |
Albumentations |
2020 |
Information |
paper |
code |
AugLy |
2022 |
arXiv |
paper |
code |
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