Towards artistic minimal rendering

Abstract

Many nonphotorealistic rendering techniques exist to produce artistic effects from given images. Inspired by various artistic work such as Warhol's, interesting artistic effects can be produced by using a minimal rendering, where the minimum refers to the number of tones as well as the number and complexity of the primitives used for rendering. To achieve this goal, based on various computer vision techniques, our method uses a combination of refined lines and blocks, as well as a small number of tones, to produce abstracted artistic rendering with sufficient elements from the original image. There is always a trade-off between reducing the amount of information and the ability to represent the shape and details of the original images. Judging the level of abstraction is semantic-based, so we believe that giving users this flexibility is probably a good choice. By changing some intuitive parameters, a wide range of visually pleasing results can be produced. Our method is usually fully automatic, but a small amount of user interaction can optionally be incorporated to obtain selective abstraction.