A Natural Image Pointillism with Controlled Ellipse Dots

This paper presents an image-based artistic rendering algorithm for the automatic Pointillism style. At first, ellipse dot locations are randomly generated based on a source image; then dot orientations are precalculated with help of a direction map; a saliency map of the source image decides long a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dongxiang Chi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2014-01-01
Series:Advances in Multimedia
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/567846