Title :
An improved method of colorized line drawing
Author :
Liu, Youquan ; Yang, Xiaocheng ; Wang, Shandong ; Wu, Enhua
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Inf. Eng., Chang´´an Univ., Xi´´an, China
Abstract :
In this paper we present an improved non photorealistic rendering method that automatically generates colorized line drawing from an input image. Based on flow based difference-of-Gaussians filtering which uses the edge tangent flow to strengthen the edge direction, the gray line drawing is generated while the obvious features are preserved well. As an improvement, we integrate color information into the gray line drawing which keeps another important component of images to visual cognition beside edges information, and aperture filling technique is also used to strength the coherent line effects, which is inspired by the labyrinth algorithm, making the final outcome more vivid and fantastic. The experiments validate our method´s effectiveness.
Keywords :
Gaussian processes; edge detection; feature extraction; image colour analysis; rendering (computer graphics); aperture filling technique; coherent line effects; color information; colorized line drawing; edge direction; edge information; edge tangent flow; feature preservation; flow based difference-of-Gaussian filtering; gray line drawing; labyrinth algorithm; nonphotorealistic rendering method; visual cognition; Apertures; Feature extraction; Filling; Filtering; Image color analysis; Image edge detection; Rendering (computer graphics); ETF; FDoG; aperture filling; colorized line drawing; non-photorealistic rendering;
Conference_Titel :
Multimedia Technology (ICMT), 2011 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Hangzhou
Print_ISBN :
978-1-61284-771-9
DOI :
10.1109/ICMT.2011.6003048