  We propose a recurrent variational auto-encoder for texture synthesis. A
novel loss function, FLTBNK, is used for training the texture synthesizer. It
is rotational and partially color invariant loss function. Unlike L2 loss,
FLTBNK explicitly models the correlation of color intensity between pixels. Our
texture synthesizer generates neighboring tiles to expand a sample texture and
is evaluated using various texture patterns from Describable Textures Dataset
(DTD). We perform both quantitative and qualitative experiments with various
loss functions to evaluate the performance of our proposed loss function
(FLTBNK) --- a mini-human subject study is used for the qualitative evaluation.
