Stylized Rendering of Yunnan Heavy Color Painting

A research on stylized rendering of Yunnan heavy color painting is attempted in this paper. First, plentiful Yunnan heavy color paintings are collected. Texture patches are extracted from these paintings and a texture library is constructed. The technique of edge detection in image space is used to extract the outline from photographic image and produce an outline drawing. The photographic image is divided into several regions on which we synthesize with texture patches chosen from texture library. Last, the synthesized image and outline drawing are fused to obtain a stylized painting with Yunnan heavy color painting style.

1. Introduction

In 1990, Haelber ^[1] published a famous paper, Paint by Numbers: Abstract Image Representations, which indicated the Non-Photorealistic Rendering mounting the history stage. Thence, Non-Photorealistic Rendering (NPR) has become a research hotspot and received more and more attention in the past decade.