Unsupervised colorization of black-and-white cartoons

NPAR Symposium on Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 121-127

  Sýkora, Daniel ^a   Buriánek, Jan ^b   Žára, Jiří ^a  

^a CZECH TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY IN PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

^b Digital Media Production   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Color by example; Image analogies; Image processing; Image registration; Image segmentation; Patch based sampling; Probabilistic relaxation

Indexed keywords

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COLOR COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; COLORIMETRY; COMPUTER VISION; FEATURE EXTRACTION;

COLOR-BY-EXAMPLE; IMAGE ANALOGIES; IMAGE REGISTRATION; PATCH-BASED SAMPLING; PROBABILISTIC RELAXATION;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 4544357082     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/987657.987677     Document Type: Conference Paper

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