Amir Semmo

News

Papers, talks, awards and app releases.

2026

  1. PaperMy paper “Local Content-Style Control for Diffusion-based Image Stylization” has been accepted to SIGGRAPH Asia 2026 Technical Communications, held December 1–4, 2026 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
  2. AppWe released ProFuse, our new on-device generative AI art app for iPhone, iPad and Mac. It turns photos and text prompts into artworks with local control over content and style, running privately on the Apple Neural Engine.

2025

  1. AppBeCasso, Clip2Comic, Graphite, Oilbrush, and Waterbrush have been updated for iOS 26, iPadOS 26, and macOS 26 with Apple’s new Liquid Glass design language, improved canvas handling, and performance optimizations. All apps are available from the App Store.
  2. AppWe added over 20 new Custom Magic Styles to BeCasso based on Arbitrary Neural Style Transfer, expanding the ML-powered artistic style transfer capabilities with new oil painting, watercolor, and pencil effects. BeCasso is available from the App Store.

2024

  1. AppBeCasso now integrates Apple Image Playground, enabling users to generate images via Apple Intelligence and transform them into high-resolution artwork directly within the app. Available on devices supporting Apple Intelligence.
  2. PaperOur extended paper “Artistic Style Decomposition for Texture and Shape Editing” has been published in a special issue of The Visual Computer.
  3. AppWe launched Magic Eraser in BeCasso, an on-device ML-powered object removal feature that runs entirely on the iPhone, iPad and Mac. Learn more.
  4. AppWe introduced Custom Styles across the BeCasso app family. Create, fine-tune, and save parametric style presets, synchronized across all devices. Learn more.

2023

  1. AwardWe are very honored to receive the Best Paper Award for “Controlling Geometric Abstraction and Texture for Artistic Images” at Cyberworlds 2023. CW 2023 took place from 3rd of October to 5th of October in Sousse, Tunisia.
  2. PaperOur paper “Interactive Control over Temporal Consistency while Stylizing Video Streams” has been accepted to the Eurographics Symposium on Rendering and will be published in a special issue of Computer Graphics Forum. The code is available from here. EGSR 2023 will take place from 28th of June to 30th of June in Delft, Netherlands.

2022

  1. AppWe updated our mobile iOS apps Oilbrush and Waterbrush with a new Rendering Core. Learn more about the new features in this blog post: Our New Rendering Core. Both apps are available from the App Store.
  2. PaperOur paper “WISE: Whitebox Image Stylization by Example-based Learning” has been accepted to the European Conference for Computer Vision. The code is available from here. ECCV 2022 will take place from 23rd of October to 27th of October in Tel Aviv.

2021

  1. AwardWe are very honored to receive the Best Paper award for “Interactive Multi-level Stroke Control for Neural Style Transfer” at Cyberworlds 2021.
  2. AppWe updated our mobile iOS app Graphite to version 1.4. Learn more about the new features in this video: Graphite 1.4 Showreel @ YouTube. Graphite is available from the App Store
  3. PaperOur paper “Service-based Analysis and Abstraction for Content Moderation of Digital Images” has been accepted to Graphics Interface 2021. GI 2021 will take place in May as a virtual event.
  4. PaperOur submission “MotionViz: Artistic Visualization of Human Motion on Mobile Devices” has been accepted to the SIGGRAPH 2021 Appy Hour program. SIGGRAPH 2021 will take place in August as a virtual event.
  5. PaperOur education paper “Teaching Data-driven Video Processing via Crowdsourced Data Collection” has also been accepted as a contribution to Eurographics 2021 and will be presented in May as part of Eurographics' Education Papers track.
  6. PaperOur paper “Interactive Photo Editing on Smartphones via Intrinsic Decomposition” has been accepted as a contribution to Eurographics 2021 and will be published in Computer Graphics Forum. Eurographics 2021 will take place in May as a virtual event.

2020

  1. PaperOur submission “Graphite: Interactive Photo-to-Drawing Stylization on Mobile Devices” has been accepted to the SIGGRAPH 2020 Appy Hour program. SIGGRAPH 2020 will take place in August as a virtual event.

2019

  1. TalkLonni Besançon gave a TEDx talk on our work on “Reducing Affective Responses to Surgical Images and Videos through Stylization”.
  2. PaperOur journal article on “Reducing Affective Responses to Surgical Images and Videos through Stylization” has been accepted to Computer Graphics Forum.
  3. PaperOur paper “Consistent Filtering Of Videos And Dense Light-Fields Without Optic-Flow” has been accepted as a contribution to Vision, Modeling and Visualization 2019. VMV 2019 will take place from 30th September to 2nd October at the University of Rostock, Germany.
  4. PaperOur submission “ViVid: Depicting Dynamics in Stylized Live Photos” has been accepted to the SIGGRAPH 2019 Appy Hour program. SIGGRAPH 2019 will take place from 28th July to 1st August in Los Angeles, USA.
  5. PaperOur paper “Locally Controllable Neural Style Transfer on Mobile Devices” has been accepted and published in The Visual Computer.

2018

  1. AwardWe are very honored to receive the best full paper award for “MaeSTrO: A Mobile App for Style Transfer Orchestration using Neural Networks” at Cyberworlds 2018. MaeSTrO is a mobile app for orchestration of neural style transfer techniques using iterative, multi-style generative and adaptive neural networks that can be locally controlled by on-screen painting metaphors. The presentation slides are available from here. MaeSTrO can be downloaded for iPads via Apple's Testflight from here.
  2. PaperWe also presented the paper “Reducing Affective Responses to Surgical Images through Color Manipulation and Stylization” at Expressive 2018. The presentation slides are available from here.
  3. AwardWe are honored to receive the best paper award for “MNPR: A Framework for Real-Time Expressive Non-Photorealistic Rendering of 3D Computer Graphics” at Expressive 2018. MNPR enables stylization pipelines with a wide range of control, thereby covering the interaction spectrum with real-time feedback. Its open-source release is available from GitHub.
  4. PaperOur paper “MaeSTrO: A Mobile App for Style Transfer Orchestration using Neural Networks” has been accepted as a contribution to Cyberworlds 2018.
  5. TalkWe will present the demo “MaeSTrO: Mobile-Style Transfer Orchestration Using Adaptive Neural Networks” at SIGGRAPH 2018 Appy Hour.
  6. TalkWe will also present the poster “Approaches for Local Control of Mobile Style Transfer” at Expressive 2018.
  7. PaperTwo papers have been accepted as a contribution to the Joint Symposium on Computational Aesthetics, Sketch-Based Interfaces and Modeling, and Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering (Expressive 2018) entitled “MNPR: A Framework for Real-Time Expressive Non-Photorealistic Rendering of 3D Computer Graphics” and “Reducing Affective Responses to Surgical Images through Color Manipulation and Stylization”.
  8. PaperOur paper “Service-based Processing and Provisioning of Image-Abstraction Techniques” has been accepted as a contribution to WSCG 2018.
  9. PaperOur paper “Teaching Image-Processing Programming for Mobile Devices: A Software Development Perspective” has been accepted as a contribution to the Eurographics 2018 Education Papers track.

2017

  1. AwardWe are honored to receive the best paper award for “ProsumerFX: Mobile Design of Image Stylization Components” and the best demo award for “Pictory - Neural Style Transfer and Editing with CoreML” at the SIGGRAPH Asia 2017 Symposium on Mobile Graphics and Interactive Applications.
  2. PaperThree contributions have been accepted for presentation at the SIGGRAPH Asia 2017 Symposium on Mobile Graphics and Interactive Applications: The technical paper “ProsumerFX: Mobile Design of Image Stylization Components”, the industry case “Challenges in User Experience Design of Image Filtering Apps”, and the demo “Pictory - Neural Style Transfer and Editing with CoreML”.
  3. TalkWe presented the demo “Pictory: Combining Neural Style Transfer and Image Filtering” at SIGGRAPH 2017 Appy Hour. More information on the public release of “Pictory” is available here.
  4. PaperWe presented our paper “Neural Style Transfer: A Paradigm Shift for Image-based Artistic Rendering?” at the 2017 Symposium on Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering (NPAR, part of Expressive). The presentation slides are available here.
  5. PaperOur paper “Neural Style Transfer: A Paradigm Shift for Image-based Artistic Rendering?” has been accepted as a contribution to the 2017 Symposium on Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering (NPAR, part of Expressive). We will also present the mobile app “Pictory: Combining Neural Style Transfer and Image Filtering” at SIGGRAPH 2017 Appy Hour.

2016

  1. AwardWe also presented the demo “BeCasso: Artistic Image Processing and Editing on Mobile Devices” at the SIGGRAPH Asia 2016 Symposium on Mobile Graphics and Interactive Applications. The demo received a Best Demo Award.
  2. PaperWe presented the paper “Interactive Image Filtering with Multiple Levels-of-Control on Mobile Devices” at the SIGGRAPH Asia 2016 Symposium on Mobile Graphics and Interactive Applications.
  3. NewsI successfully defended my doctoral thesis on the “Design and Implementation of Non-Photorealistic Rendering Techniques for 3D Geospatial Data”.
  4. TalkWe also presented the poster “Interactive Multi-scale Oil Paint Filtering on Mobile Devices” at SIGGRAPH 2016.
  5. TalkWe presented the demo “BeCasso: Image Stylization by Interactive Oil Paint Filtering on Mobile Devices” at SIGGRAPH 2016 Appy Hour.
  6. TalkWe presented the poster “Interactive Oil Paint Filtering On Mobile Devices” at Expressive 2016.
  7. PaperOur journal article on “Image Stylization by Interactive Oil Paint Filtering” was published in Computers & Graphics.