My friends and I created a Matlab program that generates four various artistic styles images including cartoonified picture, contour drawing, pencil sketches in black and white and pencil sketches in colors to an input image. We built it in class CS534 (Computational Photography).
In class, Professor Dyer introduced bilateral filtering to us, and it sparked our interests in “artistic image processing”. We think it is a waste of time and energy for people to create paintings that computer programs can generate easily. We related techniques and knowledge we had learned in class such as histogram equalization, edge detection and texture transferring to our project. We have also found some limitations of certain filters after getting our results, so we used some noise reduction methods to adjust our output images. An example of this can be viewed as our contour drawing result.
Get codes at: Github
Visit website at: Matlab Project
Ask us any questions at: rulanrulanzheng@gmail.com