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Balancing games, especially those with asymmetric multiplayer content, requires significant manual effort and extensive human playtesting during development. For this reason, this work focuses on generating balanced levels tailored to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Florian Rupp , Kai Eckert

In this work, we ask the following question: Can visual analogies, learned in an unsupervised way, be used in order to transfer knowledge between pairs of games and even play one game using an agent trained for another game? We attempt to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Doron Sobol , Lior Wolf , Yaniv Taigman

Over the past few years, image-to-image style transfer has risen to the frontiers of neural image processing. While conventional methods were successful in various tasks such as color and texture transfer between images, none could…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Jonghwa Yim , Jisung Yoo , Won-joon Do , Beomsu Kim , Jihwan Choe

We explore AI-powered upscaling as a design assistance tool in the context of creating 2D game levels. Deep neural networks are used to upscale artificially downscaled patches of levels from the puzzle platformer game Lode Runner. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Debosmita Bhaumik , Julian Togelius , Georgios N. Yannakakis , Ahmed Khalifa

Style-transfer is a process of migrating a style from a given image to the content of another, synthesizing a new image which is an artistic mixture of the two. Recent work on this problem adopting Convolutional Neural-networks (CNN)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-26 Michael Elad , Peyman Milanfar

This paper introduces a scalable paradigm for supervised style transfer by inverting the problem: instead of learning to stylize directly, we learn to destylize, reducing stylistic elements from artistic images to recover their natural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Ye Wang , Zili Yi , Yibo Zhang , Peng Zheng , Xuping Xie , Jiang Lin , Yijun Li , Yilin Wang , Rui Ma

Multi-task learning (MTL) has shown considerable practical benefits, particularly when using language models (LMs). While this is commonly achieved by learning $n$ tasks under a joint optimization procedure, some methods, such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-20 Markus Frohmann , Carolin Holtermann , Shahed Masoudian , Anne Lauscher , Navid Rekabsaz

Text-to-level generation aims to translate natural language descriptions into structured game levels, enabling intuitive control over procedural content generation. While prior text-to-level generators are typically limited to a single game…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-01 In-Chang Baek , Jiyun Jung , Geum-Hwan Hwang , Sung-Hyun Kim , Kyung-Joong Kim

How can we edit or transform the geometric or color property of a point cloud? In this study, we propose a neural style transfer method for point clouds which allows us to transfer the style of geometry or color from one point cloud either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-15 Xu Cao , Weimin Wang , Katashi Nagao

This work introduces ArtAdapter, a transformative text-to-image (T2I) style transfer framework that transcends traditional limitations of color, brushstrokes, and object shape, capturing high-level style elements such as composition and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Dar-Yen Chen , Hamish Tennent , Ching-Wen Hsu

In this paper, we use fully convolutional architectures in AlphaZero-like self-play training setups to facilitate transfer between variants of board games as well as distinct games. We explore how to transfer trained parameters of these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Dennis J. N. J. Soemers , Vegard Mella , Eric Piette , Matthew Stephenson , Cameron Browne , Olivier Teytaud

Transfer-learning methods aim to improve performance in a data-scarce target domain using a model pretrained on a data-rich source domain. A cost-efficient strategy, linear probing, involves freezing the source model and training a new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Utku Evci , Vincent Dumoulin , Hugo Larochelle , Michael C. Mozer

The idea of style transfer has largely only been explored in image-based tasks, which we attribute in part to the specific nature of loss functions used for style transfer. We propose a general formulation of style transfer as an extension…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-09 Muthuraman Chidambaram , Yanjun Qi

Semantic segmentation networks require large amounts of pixel-level annotated data, which are costly to obtain for real-world images. Computer graphics engines can generate synthetic images alongside their ground-truth annotations. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Estelle Chigot , Thomas Oberlin , Manon Huguenin , Dennis Wilson

We explore the method of style transfer presented in the article "A Neural Algorithm of Artistic Style" by Leon A. Gatys, Alexander S. Ecker and Matthias Bethge (arXiv:1508.06576). We first demonstrate the power of the suggested style space…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-03-15 Yaroslav Nikulin , Roman Novak

Image style transfer aims to manipulate the appearance of a source image, or "content" image, to share similar texture and colors of a target "style" image. Ideally, the style transfer manipulation should also preserve the semantic content…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Mahmoud Afifi , Abdullah Abuolaim , Mostafa Hussien , Marcus A. Brubaker , Michael S. Brown

On-screen game footage contains rich contextual information that players process when playing and experiencing a game. Learning pixel representations of games can benefit artificial intelligence across several downstream tasks including…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-24 Chintan Trivedi , Konstantinos Makantasis , Antonios Liapis , Georgios N. Yannakakis

This paper explores the possibilities of image style transfer applied to text maintaining the original transcriptions. Results on different text domains (scene text, machine printed text and handwritten text) and cross modal results…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-05 Raul Gomez , Ali Furkan Biten , Lluis Gomez , Jaume Gibert , Marçal Rusiñol , Dimosthenis Karatzas

We present StyleTune, a mobile app for interactive multi-level control of neural style transfers that facilitates creative adjustments of style elements and enables high output fidelity. In contrast to current mobile neural style transfer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Max Reimann , Benito Buchheim , Amir Semmo , Jürgen Döllner , Matthias Trapp

Given a random pair of images, an arbitrary style transfer method extracts the feel from the reference image to synthesize an output based on the look of the other content image. Recent arbitrary style transfer methods transfer second order…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-15 Xueting Li , Sifei Liu , Jan Kautz , Ming-Hsuan Yang