Coherent Line Drawing

Henry Kang University of Missouri, St. Louis	Seungyong Lee POSTECH	Charles K. Chui University of Missouri, St. Louis
In Proc. of the 5th Intl' Symposium on Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering, August 2007.

Abstract

This paper presents a non-photorealistic rendering technique that automatically generates a line drawing from a photograph. We aim at extracting a set of coherent, smooth, and stylistic lines that effectively capture and convey important shapes in the image. We first develop a novel method for constructing a smooth direction field that preserves the flow of the salient image features. We then introduce the notion of flow-guided anisotropic filtering for detecting highly coherent lines while suppressing noise. Our method is simple and easy to implement. A variety of experimental results are presented to show the effectiveness of our method in producing self-contained, high-quality line illustrations.


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BibTeX

@inproceedings{Kang:2007:CLD,
author = "Henry Kang and Seungyong Lee and Charles K. Chui",
title = "Coherent Line Drawing",
booktitle = "ACM Symposium on Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering (NPAR)",
pages = {43-50},
month = aug,
year = "2007"
}