My colleagues, Kaan Yücer, Alexander Hornung, Olga Sorkine, and I have just submitted the camera ready version of paper "Transfusive Image Manipulation" to be presented at ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2012. We've put up a Transfusive image manipulation project page where you can find the preprint version of the article, videos and implementation details and hopefully more to com.
Abstract
We present a method for consistent automatic transfer of edits applied to one image to many other images of the same object or scene. By introducing novel, content-adaptive weight functions we enhance the non-rigid alignment framework of Lucas-Kanade to robustly handle changes of view point, illumination and non rigid deformations of the subjects. Our weight functions are content-aware and possess high-order smoothness, enabling to define high-quality image warping with a low number of parameters using spatially-varying weighted combinations of affine deformations. Optimizing the warp parameters leads to subpixel-accurate alignment while maintaining computation efficiency. Our method allows users to perform precise, localized edits such as simultaneous painting on multiple images in real-time, relieving them from tedious and repetitive manual reapplication to each individual image.
