Week 2

12-18 Jan 2026

AI Style Transfer Tool

Convert source images, including sketch and photorealistic image to a stylized one based on specific style reference

AI Style Transfer Interface
  • ControlNet Strength: Controls how closely the output follows source images' lines and shapes

  • IP-Adapter Strength: Controls how much color/style transfers from reference painting

  • Influence Steps: Number of refinement iterations (quality)

  • Guidance Scale: How strongly AI follows all inputs

  • Seed: Random seed for reproducibility

Result

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Technical Information

  • Models & Versions

    • Base: stabilityai/stable-diffusion-xl-base-1.0 --> Core image generation engine

    • CLIP: openai/clip-vit-base-patch32 (22 landscape classes) --> Semantic understanding of sketch regions

    • ControlNet: lllyasviel/sd-controlnet-softedge --> Preserves sketch structure during generation

    • SAM: ViT-B checkpoint --> Precise object boundary detection

    • IP-Adapter: h94/IP-Adapter XL variant --> Style/color transfer from reference image

  • Hardware Information

    • NVIDIA RTX 6000 Blackwell

    • CUDA 12.9

AI Style transfer with Gaussian Splat

Apply AI Style transfer with Gaussian Splat (.PLY files)

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Reference

Original Gaussian Splat

100% Style Transfer Intensity

50% Style Transfer Intensity

0% Style Transfer Intensity

Challenges

To-Do Lists

  • Use OpenUSD to store multiple variants of style of the same gaussian splat object

  • Testing original and stylized gaussian splat in Unreal

  • Refine Gaussian splat style AI transfer tool