Projects / Video Watercolorization
Video Watercolorization
Adrien Bousseau| INRIA
Fabrice Neyret| INRIA
Joëlle Thollot| INRIA
David Salesin| Adobe Systems
We developed a method for creating watercolor-like animation, starting from video as input. The method involves two main steps: applying textures that simulate a watercolor appearance; and creating a simplified, abstracted version of the video to which the texturing operations are applied. Both of these steps are subject to highly visible temporal artifacts, so the primary technical contributions of the paper are extensions of previous methods for texturing and abstraction to provide temporal coherence when applied to video sequences. To maintain coherence for textures, we employ texture advection along lines of optical flow. We furthermore extend previous approaches by incorporating advection in both forward and reverse directions through the video, which allows for minimal texture distortion, particularly in areas of disocclusion that are otherwise highly problematic. To maintain coherence for abstraction, we employ mathematical morphology extended to the temporal domain, using filters whose temporal extents are locally controlled by the degree of distortions in the optical flow. Together, these techniques provide the first practical and robust approach for producing watercolor animations from video, which we demonstrated with a number of examples.
Publications |
Video Watercolorization Using Bbidirectional Texture Advection
Bousseau, A., Neyret, F., Thollot, J., and Salesin, D. (Dec 17, 2007)
ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH), 26(3), 104:1–104:7
