title: LookingGlass: Generative Anamorphoses via Laplacian Pyramid Warping
summary: Anamorphosis refers to a category of images that are intentionally distorted,
  making them unrecognizable when viewed directly. Their true form only reveals
  itself when seen from a specific viewpoint, which can be through some
  catadioptric device like a mirror or a lens. While the construction of these
  mathematical devices can be traced back to as early as the 17th century, they
  are only interpretable when viewed from a specific vantage point and tend to
  lose meaning when seen normally. In this paper, we revisit these famous optical
  illusions with a generative twist. With the help of latent rectified flow
  models, we propose a method to create anamorphic images that still retain a
  valid interpretation when viewed directly. To this end, we introduce Laplacian
  Pyramid Warping, a frequency-aware image warping technique key to generating
  high-quality visuals. Our work extends Visual Anagrams (arXiv:2311.17919) to
  latent space models and to a wider range of spatial transforms, enabling the
  creation of novel generative perceptual illusions.
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paper_authors.name: Pascal Chang
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paper_authors.name: Sergio Sancho
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paper_authors.fullname: Sergio Sancho
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paper_authors.name: Jingwei Tang
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paper_authors.name: Markus Gross
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paper_authors.name: Vinicius C. Azevedo
paper_title: LookingGlass: Generative Anamorphoses via Laplacian Pyramid Warping
paper_summary: Anamorphosis refers to a category of images that are intentionally distorted,
  making them unrecognizable when viewed directly. Their true form only reveals
  itself when seen from a specific viewpoint, which can be through some
  catadioptric device like a mirror or a lens. While the construction of these
  mathematical devices can be traced back to as early as the 17th century, they
  are only interpretable when viewed from a specific vantage point and tend to
  lose meaning when seen normally. In this paper, we revisit these famous optical
  illusions with a generative twist. With the help of latent rectified flow
  models, we propose a method to create anamorphic images that still retain a
  valid interpretation when viewed directly. To this end, we introduce Laplacian
  Pyramid Warping, a frequency-aware image warping technique key to generating
  high-quality visuals. Our work extends Visual Anagrams (arXiv:2311.17919) to
  latent space models and to a wider range of spatial transforms, enabling the
  creation of novel generative perceptual illusions.
paper_ai_summary: Latent rectified flow models and Laplacian Pyramid Warping are used to generate anamorphic images that maintain meaning when viewed directly.
paper_ai_keywords: laten rectified flow models Laplacian Pyramid Warping anamorphic images generative perceptual illusions