LociArt: A Unified Paradigm for Free-Style Local Video Stylization
LociArt is presented as a paradigm for local video stylization that specifies both where to stylize and which style to apply while preserving non-target content. Its core model, GRNStyle, builds on Generative Refinement Networks and uses a polar style-aware mask plus representation-geometry conditioning. The authors built LociArt-100K, an automatically constructed dataset of 100K local stylization pairs, and a benchmark of 80 source videos and 84 target masks evaluated with a Style Prototype Similarity metric. They report that GRNStyle outperforms existing methods in regional style quality and spatial control while keeping strong temporal consistency.
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LociArt is presented as a paradigm for local video stylization that specifies both where to stylize and which style to apply while preserving non-target content. Its core model, GRNStyle, builds on Generative Refinement Networks and uses a polar style-aware mask plus representation-geometry conditioning. The authors built LociArt-100K, an automatically constructed dataset of 100K local stylization pairs, and a benchmark of 80 source videos and 84 target masks evaluated with a Style Prototype Similarity metric. They report that GRNStyle outperforms existing methods in regional style quality and spatial control while keeping strong temporal consistency.
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- GRNStyle uses a polar style-aware mask that embeds style identities as equal-norm directions within selected regions.
- The LociArt-100K dataset contains 100K local stylization pairs built with an automated pipeline of stylization, object removal, matting, and compositing.
- The benchmark covers 168 foreground/background stylization cases and uses Style Prototype Similarity for regional style quality.
- Joint multi-region stylization is shown qualitatively despite training only on single-region, single-style pairs.
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Local, region-specific video stylization with preserved surroundings and temporal coherence is a practical creative need. The paper offers a dataset, benchmark, and metric that could support future controllable video editing research.
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