Vectorizing cartoon animations

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 618-629

  Zhang, Song Hai ^a   Chen, Tao ^a   Zhang, Yi Fei ^a   Hu, Shi Min ^a   Martin, Ralph R ^b  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cartoon vectorization; Foreground extraction; Image decomposition; Trapped ball segmentation

Indexed keywords

ARBITRARY COLOR; CARTOON ANIMATION; CARTOON VECTORIZATION; FILE SIZES; FOREGROUND EXTRACTION; FOREGROUND REGIONS; IMAGE DECOMPOSITION; REGION SEGMENTATION; SEGMENTATION METHODS; SINGLE PATCH; SPECIAL OBJECTS; TEMPORAL COHERENCE; TRAPPED-BALL SEGMENTATION;

EDGE DETECTION;

EID: 67649379375     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2009.9     Document Type: Article

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