Artistic paper-cut of human portraits

This paper presents a method to render artistic paper-cut of human portraits. Rendering paper-cut images from photographs can be considered as an inhomogeneous image binarization problem, to which ideal solutions should reproduce vivid image details with sparse cuts. Especially for portrait paper-cut, good artworks should capture impressive facial features. To achieve this goal, our approach integrates bottom-up and top-down cues to better determine the binary values. In the bottom-up phase, facial components are localized on the input photograph, and their draft binary versions are proposed. In the top-down phase, we use precollected representative paper-cut templates, with which we synthesize the final paper-cut image by matching them with the bottom-up proposals. Experimental results show that our approach can produce visually satisfactory results. Categories and Subject Descriptors I.3.3 [Computer Graphics]: Picture/Image Generation; I.4.10 [Image Processing and Computer Vision]: ...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2010
• Where: MM
• Authors: Meng Meng, Mingtian Zhao, Song Chun Zhu
• Keywords: Image, Inhomogeneous Image Binarization, MM 2010, Multimedia, Paper-cut Image