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Artistic preprocessing for painterly rendering and image stylization

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A practical image enhancing technique is presented as a preprocessing step for painterly rendering and image stylization, which transforms the input image mimicking the vision of artists. The new method contains mainly two parts dealing with artistic enhancement and color adjustment, respectively. First, through feature extraction and simplification, an abstract shadow map is constructed for the input image, which is then taken as a guide for emphasizing the light–shadow contrast and the important shadow lines. Next, to simulate the intense color emotion often subjectively added by the artist, a color adjustment technique is proposed to generate lively colors with sharp contrast imitating the artistic vision. The preprocessing operation is compatible with existing stylization and stroke-based painterly rendering techniques, and it can also produce different types of stylization results independently.

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Acknowledgements

This work is supported by Tsinghua—Tencent Joint Laboratory for Internet Innovation Technology under Grant No. 2012-01 and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 60970068). The authors would also like to thank the support from the International Joint Project from the Royal Society of UK (No. JP100987.)

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  1. School of Electrical Information Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Shaanxi, China

    Yu Zang

  2. Beijing Key Laboratory of Intelligent Information Technology, School of Computer Science and Technology, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China

    Hua Huang

  3. College of Engineering, Swansea University, Wales, UK

    Chen-Feng Li

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Zang, Y., Huang, H. & Li, CF. Artistic preprocessing for painterly rendering and image stylization. Vis Comput 30, 969–979 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00371-013-0881-6

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