XCI-Sketch: Extraction of Color Information from Images for Generation of Colored Outlines and Sketches

2021/08/26 by Manushree, V, Saxena, Sameer, Chowdhury, Parna +4
#Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI) #Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV) #FOS: Computer and information sciences

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2108.11554

Abstract

Sketches are a medium to convey a visual scene from an individual's creative perspective. The addition of color substantially enhances the overall expressivity of a sketch. This paper proposes two methods to mimic human-drawn colored sketches by utilizing the Contour Drawing Dataset. Our first approach renders colored outline sketches by applying image processing techniques aided by k-means color clustering. The second method uses a generative adversarial network to develop a model that can generate colored sketches from previously unobserved images. We assess the results obtained through quantitative and qualitative evaluations.

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