Point-Pattern Synthesis using Gabor and Random Filters

Xingchang Huang, Pooran Memari, Hans-peter Seidel, Gurprit Singh

Abstract: Point pattern synthesis requires capturing both local and non-local correlations from a given exemplar. Recent works employ deep hierarchical representations from VGG-19 convolutional network to capture the features for both point-pattern and texture synthesis. In this work, we develop a simplified optimization pipeline that uses more traditional Gabor transform-based features. These features when convolved with simple random filters gives highly expressive feature maps. The resulting framework requires significantly less feature maps compared to VGG-19-based methods, better captures both the local and non-local structures, does not require any specific data set training and can easily extend to handle multi-class and multi-attribute point patterns, e.g., disk and other element distributions. To validate our pipeline, we perform qualitative and quantitative analysis on a large variety of point patterns to demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach. Finally, to better understand the impact of random filters, we include a spectral analysis using filters with different frequency bandwidths.