Title
Synthesizing style-preserving cartoons via non-negative style factorization
Abstract
We present a complete framework for synthesizing style-preserving 2D cartoons by learning from traditional Chinese cartoons. In contrast to reusing-based approaches which rely on rearranging or retrieving existing cartoon sequences, we aim to generate stylized cartoons with the idea of style factorization. Specifically, starting with 2D skeleton features of cartoon characters extracted by an improved rotoscoping system, we present a non-negative style factorization (NNSF) algorithm to obtain style basis and weights and simultaneously preserve class separability. Thus, factorized style basis can be combined with heterogeneous weights to re-synthesize style-preserving features, and then these features are used as the driving source in the character reshaping process via our proposed subkey-driving strategy. Extensive experiments and examples demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed framework.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1631/jzus.C1100202
Journal of Zhejiang University: Science C
Keywords
Field
DocType
character cartoon,cartoon synthesis,machine learning
Computer science,Stylized fact,Factorization,Artificial intelligence,Class separability
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
13
3
1869196X
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
29
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Liang Zhang16410.30
Jun Xiao251350.95
Yue-Ting Zhuang33549216.06