Two-stage photograph cartoonization via line tracing

• Main Authors: LI, Simin, WEN, Qiang, ZHAO, Shuang, SUN, Zixun, HE, Shengfeng
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2020
• Subjects: Computing; methodologies; Neural networks; Image processing; Information Security
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/7842; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/8845/viewcontent/twostage.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Cartoon is highly abstracted with clear edges, which makes it unique from the other art forms. In this paper, we focus on the essential cartoon factors of abstraction and edges, aiming to cartoonize real-world photographs like an artist. To this end, we propose a two-stage network, each stage explic...