1(Key Laboratory of Computer Science, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080) 2(Department of Computer and Information Science, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Macau, Macao) 3(Graduate University, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080)
It is often difficult for existing texture synthesis methods to preserve the border structures of the sample texture. Because of this, a new method is presented that makes the borders to take effect in producing new textures by a border image so that the border structures can be well preserved, which is very suitable for a type of texture called “the texel-style texture” that is composed of some independent color pattern units. In this method, a border image is extracted first from the sample texture. Then, guided by the border image, respective synthesis methods are used for the two kinds of the texel-style textures, the overlaid texture and the un-overlaid texture. They are the “patch overlaying method” for the overlaid texture and the “patch matching method” for the un-overlaid texture. Compared with the existing methods, the method presented can preserve the border structures more efficiently to produce satisfactory results for the texel-style textures and run fast.