Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Chin-Yew Lin

Jinpeng Wang

Jianlong Fu

Dongmei Zhang

Jing Liu

He Huang

Haidong Zhang

Zhang Li

Bogdan Popp

Vincent Etter

Peter Kurt Allenspach

Weiwei Cui

Fangrong Chen

Jinge Yao

Si Meng

Sun Mao

Genglin Huang

Tao Wu

In accordance with the implementations of the subject matter described herein, there is provided a solution for reusing infographics. In this solution, a group of visual element units is determined from a visual element set comprised in the original infographic. A visual element unit in the group represents an information item in the original infographic. A first correlation between a visual element contained in the visual element unit and the information item and a second correlation between the visual element unit and a further visual element unit in the group are determined. A description for the original infographic is generated based on the first and second correlations. A target infographic is generated by updating the group of visual element units at least based on the description and the target information. In this way, infographics can be converted into reusable templates, thereby simplifying reuse of such infographics and improving user experience.

Reuse of infographics

Various implementations of the present disclosure relate to style transfer. In some implementations, a computer-implemented method comprises: obtaining a target object having a first style, a style of the target object being editable; obtaining a reference image including a reference object; obtaining a second style of the reference object, the second style of the reference object being extracted from the reference image; and applying the second style to the target object.

Style transfer

In embodiments of the present disclosure, there is provided a method for generating a stylized icon automatically. After a query text inputted by a user is obtained, a trained generator is used to generate a structured icon that can characterize a structure of an object, and then the structured icon is stylized, such as performing color padding or adding other styles, so as to generate a high-quality stylized icon for the user. In embodiments of the present disclosure, a structured icon and a stylized icon are generated respectively at two stages, where the structured icon can clearly characterize the structure of the object, while the stylized icon can be richer in color and style. Therefore, the stylized icon generated according to embodiments of the present disclosure has a higher quality and is more realistic, thereby improving the user experience of icon generation.

Automatic generation of stylized icons

A method and apparatus may be used for document auto-completion. In an aspect, an instruction for creating a document may be received. The document may be presented in response to the instruction, at least a first section in the document including content suggested according to context information associated with the document. An edit operation to the document may be received. Content suggested in response to the edit operation may be presented in at least a second section in the document. In another aspect, context information associated with completion of a document may be identified. Content of at least one section in the document may be generated, the content being suggested based at least on the context information. The content may be presented in the at least one section in the document.

Document auto-completion

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