Feature- and region-based auto painting for 2D animation

Visual Computer

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 928-944

  Qiu, Jie ^a,b   Seah, Hock Soon ^a,b,c,d,e,f   Tian, Feng ^a,b   Wu, Zhongke ^a,b   Chen, Quan ^a,b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c Singapore Computer Society   (Singapore)

^d ACM SIGGRAPH   (Singapore)

^e South East Asian Computer Graphics Society ^*

^f Singapore National Grid Office   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Auto coloring; Cel animation; Master frame; Region matching; Topology

Indexed keywords

AUTO COLORING; CEL ANIMATION; MASTER FRAME; REGION MATCHING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; TOPOLOGY;

ANIMATION;

EID: 26844481071     PISSN: 01782789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00371-005-0307-1     Document Type: Article

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