A curated list of resources including papers, datasets, and relevant links pertaining to image composition.

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• Li Niu, Wenyan Cong, Liu Liu, Yan Hong, Bo Zhang, Jing Liang, Liqing Zhang: "Making Images Real Again: A Comprehensive Survey on Deep Image Composition." arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.14490 (2021). [arXiv]

• He Zhang, Jianming Zhang, Federico Perazzi, Zhe Lin, Vishal M. Patel: "Deep Image Compositing." WACV (2021) [pdf]
• Lingzhi Zhang, Tarmily Wen, Jianbo Shi: "Deep Image Blending." WACV (2020) [pdf] [arXiv] [code]
• Huikai Wu, Shuai Zheng, Junge Zhang, Kaiqi Huang: "GP-GAN: Towards Realistic High-Resolution Image Blending." ACM MM (2019) [arXiv] [code]

  Awesome-Image-Harmonization

  Awesome-Object-Shadow-Generation

• Shengjie Ma, Qian Shen, Qiming Hou, Zhong Ren, Kun Zhou: "Neural Compositing for Real-time Augmented Reality Rendering in Low-frequency Lighting Environments." Science China Information Sciences (2021) [pdf]

  Awesome-Object-Placement

• Fangneng Zhan, Jiaxing Huang, Shijian Lu: "Hierarchy Composition GAN for High-fidelity Image Synthesis." Transactions on cybernetics (2021) [arXiv]
• Samaneh Azadi, Deepak Pathak, Sayna Ebrahimi, Trevor Darrell: "Compositional GAN: Learning Image-Conditional Binary Composition." IJCV (2020) [arXiv] [code]

• Jizhizi Li, Jing Zhang, Stephen J.Maybank, Dacheng Tao: "Bridging Composite and Real: Towards End-to-End Deep Image Matting." IJCV (2021) [pdf] [code]

• Sijie Zhu, Zhe Lin, Scott Cohen, Jason Kuen, Zhifei Zhang, Chen Chen: "GALA: Toward Geometry-and-Lighting-Aware Object Search for Compositing." arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.00125 (2022) [arXiv]
• Zongze Wu, Dani Lischinski, Eli Shechtman: "Fine-grained Foreground Retrieval via Teacher-Student Learning." WACV (2021) [pdf]
• Boren Li, Po-Yu Zhuang, Jian Gu, Mingyang Li, Ping Tan: "Interpretable Foreground Object Search As Knowledge Distillation." ECCV (2020) [arXiv]
• Yinan Zhao, Brian Price, Scott Cohen, Danna Gurari: "Unconstrained foreground object search." ICCV (2019) [pdf]
• Hengshuang Zhao, Xiaohui Shen, Zhe Lin, Kalyan Sunkavalli, Brian Price, Jiaya Jia: "Compositing-aware image search." ECCV (2018) [pdf]

• Datasets for image harmonization [link]
• Datasets for object shadow generation [link]
• Datasets for object placement [link]