Pixelated Image Abstraction

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Date
2012
Authors
Gerstner, Timothy
DeCarlo, Doug
Alexa, Marc
Finkelstein, Adam
Gingold, Yotam
Nealen, Andrew
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Volume Title
Publisher
The Eurographics Association
Abstract
We present an automatic method that can be used to abstract high resolution images into very low resolution outputs with reduced color palettes in the style of pixel art. Our method simultaneously solves for a mapping of features and a reduced palette needed to construct the output image. The results are an approximation to the results generated by pixel artists. We compare our method against the results of a naive process common to image manipulation programs, as well as the hand-crafted work of pixel artists. Through a formal user study and interviews with expert pixel artists we show that our results offer an improvement over the naive methods.
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@inproceedings{
:10.2312/PE/NPAR/NPAR12/029-036
,
booktitle = {
International Symposium on Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering
},
editor = {
Paul Asente and Cindy Grimm
},
title = {{
Pixelated Image Abstraction
}},
author = {
Gerstner, Timothy
 and 
DeCarlo, Doug
 and 
Alexa, Marc
 and 
Finkelstein, Adam
 and 
Gingold, Yotam
 and 
Nealen, Andrew
},
year = {
2012
},
publisher = {
The Eurographics Association
},
ISBN = {
978-3-905673-90-6
},
DOI = {
/10.2312/PE/NPAR/NPAR12/029-036
}
}
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https://doi.org/10.2312/PE/NPAR/NPAR12/029-036
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