This article presents a framework for symmetry-guided texture synthesis and processing. It is motivated by the long-standing problem of how to optimize, transfer, and control the spatial patterns in textures. The key idea is that symmetry representations that measure autocorrelations with respect to all transformations of a group are a natural way to describe spatial patterns in many real-world textures. To leverage this idea, we provide methods to transfer symmetry representations from one texture to another, process the symmetries of a texture, and optimize textures with respect to properties of their symmetry representations. These methods are automatic and robust, as they don�t require explicit detection of discrete symmetries. Applications are investigated for optimizing, processing, and transferring symmetries and textures.

@article{Kim:2012:STS,
   author = "Vladimir G. Kim and Yaron Lipman and Thomas Funkhouser",
   title = "Symmetry-Guided Texture Synthesis and Manipulation",
   journal = "Transactions on Graphics",
   year = "2012",
   month = may,
   volume = "31",
   number = "3"
}