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http://dx.doi.org/10.15701/kcgs.2017.23.2.11

IMToon: Image-based Cartoon Authoring System using Image Processing  

Seo, Banseok (Department of Software, Catholic University of Pusan)
Kim, Jinmo (Department of Software, Catholic University of Pusan)
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Journal of the Korea Computer Graphics Society / v.23, no.2, 2017 , pp. 11-22 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study proposes IMToon(IMage-based carToon) which is an image-based cartoon authoring system using an image processing algorithm. The proposed IMToon allows general users to easily and efficiently produce frames comprising cartoons based on image. The authoring system is designed largely with two functions: cartoon effector and interactive story editor. Cartoon effector automatically converts input images into a cartoon-style image, which consists of image-based cartoon shading and outline drawing steps. Image-based cartoon shading is to receive images of the desired scenes from users, separate brightness information from the color model of the input images, simplify them to a shading range of desired steps, and recreate them as cartoon-style images. Then, the final cartoon style images are created through the outline drawing step in which the outlines of the shaded images are applied through edge detection. Interactive story editor is used to enter text balloons and subtitles in a dialog structure to create one scene of the completed cartoon that delivers a story such as web-toon or comic book. In addition, the cartoon effector, which converts images into cartoon style, is expanded to videos so that it can be applied to videos as well as still images. Finally, various experiments are conducted to verify the possibility of easy and efficient production of cartoons that users want based on images with the proposed IMToon system.
Keywords
image-based cartoon shading; non-photorealistic rendering; image processing; authoring system; cartoon;
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