LensStyle: Learning the Optical Aesthetics for Controllable Stylized Lens Effect Rendering

The visual aesthetics of photographs are deeply influencedby lens characteristics such as aperture shape, optical vignetting and op-tical diffraction, which together define a camera’s unique optical style.Existing lens effect rendering methods primarily focus on accurately sim-ulating the blur transition from small to large apertures but overlook thestylistic aspects of lens effects. As a result, they fail to produce diversebokeh effects under large apertures or capture distinctive photographicphenomena such as starbursts that emerge under small apertures. In thiswork, we introduce LensStyle, a unified framework for controllable styl-ized lens effect rendering that explicitly models lens aesthetics throughjoint continuous–discrete control. Our model incorporates a Dual-PathController that disentangles continuous optical parameter modulation(e.g., focus distance and blur strength) from discrete lens-style condi-tioning (e.g., circular, polygonal, donut, cat-eye, and starburst effects),enabling fine-grained, interpretable, and physically grounded lens manip-ulation within a single unified framework. To support model training, wecurate a comprehensive MultiLens dataset containing multi-lens imagepairs synthesized under real optical constraints. Extensive experimentsdemonstrate that LensStyle achieves superior realism, controllability, andaesthetic quality compared with existing lens effect rendering approachesand diffusion-based image editing models, advancing computational pho-tography toward multiple-lens-style simulation.