Reference-based screentone transfer via pattern correspondence and regularization

• Main Authors: LI, Zhansheng, ZHAO, Nanxuan, WU, Zongwei, DAI, Yihua, WANG, Junle, JING, Yanqing, HE, Shengfeng
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2023
• Subjects: manga; screentone; Reference-based; patch correspondence; pattern regularization; Computational Engineering
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/8370; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/9373/viewcontent/v42i6_26_14800__1_.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Adding screentone to initial line drawings is a crucial step for manga generation, but is a tedious and human-laborious task. In this work, we propose a novel data-driven method aiming to transfer the screentone pattern from a reference manga image. This not only ensures the quality, but also adds c...