These can have some disturbing results.
i5-3570k @ 4.1 GHz
$ ./style_transfer.exe images/tiger.jpg images/kid.jpg -m=blend -wv=0.96 -ws=0.96 -q=0
Image type is: 8UC3
Image size is: 640x627
Image type is: 8UC3
Image size is: 500x500
Scaled Template Image size is: 640x626
Scaled Target Image size is: 500x500
Template Quadrants: 1
Target Quadrants: 1
Pre-Process Time Elapsed: 163 (ms)
Begin Image Registration
Begin findTransformECC
Begin warpAffine
Registration Time Elapsed: 109 (ms)
Begin Style Transfer
Begin splitting planes
Begin transfer loop
Mode: "blend"
Style Transfer Time Elapsed: 8 (ms)
Merge Time Elapsed: 2 (ms)
Process Time Elapsed: 964 (ms)
Wrote ./out/style_output/TODO/q_0.png
Post-Process Time Elapsed: 140 (ms)
$ ./style_transfer.exe images/tiger.jpg images/kid.jpg -m=blend -q=5
Image type is: 8UC3
Image size is: 640x627
Image type is: 8UC3
Image size is: 500x500
Scaled Template Image size is: 640x626
Scaled Target Image size is: 500x500
Template Quadrants: 1024
Target Quadrants: 1024
Pre-Process Time Elapsed: 161 (ms)
Begin Image Registration
Begin findTransformECC
Begin warpAffine
Registration Time Elapsed: 109 (ms)
Begin Style Transfer
Begin splitting planes
Begin transfer loop
Mode: "blend"
Style Transfer Time Elapsed: 47 (ms)
Merge Time Elapsed: 2 (ms)
Process Time Elapsed: 620 (ms)
Wrote ./out/style_output/TODO/q_5.png
Post-Process Time Elapsed: 132 (ms)
$ ./style_transfer.exe images/tiger.jpg images/kid.jpg -m=blend -q=8 -wv=0.96 -ws=0.01
Image type is: 8UC3
Image size is: 640x627
Image type is: 8UC3
Image size is: 500x500
Scaled Template Image size is: 640x626
Scaled Target Image size is: 500x500
Template Quadrants: 65536
Target Quadrants: 65536
Pre-Process Time Elapsed: 328 (ms)
Begin Image Registration
Begin findTransformECC
Begin warpAffine
Registration Time Elapsed: 104 (ms)
Begin Style Transfer
Begin splitting planes
Begin transfer loop
Mode: "blend"
Style Transfer Time Elapsed: 446 (ms)
Merge Time Elapsed: 2 (ms)
Process Time Elapsed: 785 (ms)
Wrote ./out/style_output/TODO/q_8.png
Post-Process Time Elapsed: 137 (ms)