This paper addresses the problem of interpolating visual textures. We
formulate this problem by requiring (1) by-example controllability and (2)
realistic and smooth interpolation among an arbitrary number of texture
samples. To solve it we propose a neural network trained simultaneously on a
reconstruction task and a generation task, which can project texture examples
onto a latent space where they can be linearly interpolated and projected back
onto the image domain, thus ensuring both intuitive control and realistic
results. We show our method outperforms a number of baselines according to a
comprehensive suite of metrics as well as a user study. We further show several
applications based on our technique, which include texture brush, texture
dissolve, and animal hybridization.

本文提出了一种利用神经网络实现纹理插值的方法，通过对重建任务和生成任务同时训练网络，将样例纹理投影到潜空间中进行线性插值，并重投影到图像域中，从而实现直观的控制和逼真的效果；研究显示该方法优于其他方法，并给出了纹理笔刷、纹理溶解和动物杂交等多个应用。

纹理混合器：一种可控的纹理综合和插值网络

Texture Mixer: A Network for Controllable Synthesis and Interpolation of  Texture

Visual textures have played a key role in image understanding because they
convey important semantics of images, and because texture representations that
pool local image descriptors in an orderless manner have had a tremendous
impact in diverse applications. In this paper we make several contributions to
texture understanding. First, instead of focusing on texture instance and
material category recognition, we propose a human-interpretable vocabulary of
texture attributes to describe common texture patterns, complemented by a new
describable texture dataset for benchmarking. Second, we look at the problem of
recognizing materials and texture attributes in realistic imaging conditions,
including when textures appear in clutter, developing corresponding benchmarks
on top of the recently proposed OpenSurfaces dataset. Third, we revisit classic
texture representations, including bag-of-visual-words and the Fisher vectors,
in the context of deep learning and show that these have excellent efficiency
and generalization properties if the convolutional layers of a deep model are
used as filter banks. We obtain in this manner state-of-the-art performance in
numerous datasets well beyond textures, an efficient method to apply deep
features to image regions, as well as benefit in transferring features from one
domain to another.

本文提出了一种基于可描述纹理数据集的词汇表，用于描述常见的纹理模式，以及一些对应的图像识别技术，包括物体材质和纹理属性的实时识别，并通过将深度模型卷积层用作滤波器进行优化以获得卓越的性能。