ObjMST: An Object-Focused Multimodal Style Transfer Framework
This work addresses style transfer challenges for computer vision and graphics applications, but it is incremental as it builds on existing multimodal methods with specific enhancements.
The paper tackles the problem of inconsistent and non-aligned multimodal style representations in image-text style transfer, particularly addressing content mismatch between salient objects and surroundings, by proposing ObjMST, which achieves improved stylization through separate supervision and alignment mechanisms.
We propose ObjMST, an object-focused multimodal style transfer framework that provides separate style supervision for salient objects and surrounding elements while addressing alignment issues in multimodal representation learning. Existing image-text multimodal style transfer methods face the following challenges: (1) generating non-aligned and inconsistent multimodal style representations; and (2) content mismatch, where identical style patterns are applied to both salient objects and their surrounding elements. Our approach mitigates these issues by: (1) introducing a Style-Specific Masked Directional CLIP Loss, which ensures consistent and aligned style representations for both salient objects and their surroundings; and (2) incorporating a salient-to-key mapping mechanism for stylizing salient objects, followed by image harmonization to seamlessly blend the stylized objects with their environment. We validate the effectiveness of ObjMST through experiments, using both quantitative metrics and qualitative visual evaluations of the stylized outputs. Our code is available at: https://github.com/chandagrover/ObjMST.