Foreground-distortion method for image synthesis

A new image synthesis method, which is called foreground-distortion, is presented in this paper. In this method, foreground extraction procedure is used to get the interesting part from the texture sample, and many-knot spline interpolation distortion method is used to generate similar texture foregrounds. These similar texture foregrounds are extracted and copied onto a larger background image and a new output image will be synthesized. Compared with other methods, this method is simple and fast, texture seam problem can be avoided and, fewer texture samples even only one will be used to generate a large synthesized image. The sheltering effect between texture foregrounds can be implemented in this method while the texture foregrounds are overlapped. The results for synthesizing natural scenes and random textures are shown. We also demonstrate how this method can be used to interactively merge different images to generate new pictures.