Chinese Painting Style Transfer Using Deep Generative Models

Artistic style transfer aims to modify the style of the image while preserving its content. Style transfer using deep learning models has been widely studied since 2015, and most of the applications are focused on specific artists like Van Gogh, Monet, Cezanne. There are few researches and applications on traditional Chinese painting style transfer. In this paper, we will study and leverage different state-of-the-art deep generative models for Chinese painting style transfer and evaluate the performance both qualitatively and quantitatively. In addition, we propose our own algorithm that combines several style transfer models for our task. Specifically, we will transfer two main types of traditional Chinese painting style, known as "Gong-bi" and "Shui-mo" (to modern images like nature objects, portraits and landscapes.