基于纹理和草图的图像铅笔画绘制

Pencil drawing rendering based on textures and sketches

针对目前铅笔画生成方法中的线条不够灵活、纹理缺少方向感的问题,提出了一种基于带方向的纹理和线条草图将一幅图像转换为铅笔画风格的方法。首先,对输入图像进行直方图匹配得到图像的色调图,并将图像分割为多个区域,对每个区域,根据其颜色和形状计算其色调和方向,以此决定铅笔纹理的色调和方向;然后,通过可调整的线性卷积方法得到铅笔画的线条草图;最后,将纹理和草图结合得到铅笔画效果。运用提出的方法对不同类型的自然图像进行了铅笔画的转换,并与已有的线卷积积分方法和基于色调的方法进行了对比。实验结果表明带方向的区域纹理能更好地模拟手工铅笔画纹理的方向,可调整的线条能够更好地模拟手工铅笔画的线条的随意性和灵活性。

Concerning the problem in pencil drawing generation that the pencil lines lack flexibility and textures lack directions, a method of combining directional textures and pencil sketches was proposed to produce pencil drawing from natural images. First, histogram matching was employed to obtain the tone map of the image, and an image was segmented into several regions according to color. For each region, tone and direction were computed by its color and its shape, to decide the final tone and direction of the pencil drawing. Then, an adjusted linear convolution was used to get the pencil sketches with certain randomness. Finally, the directional textures and sketches were combined to get the pencil drawing style. Different kinds of natural images could be converted to pencil drawings by the proposed method, and the renderings were compared with those of existing methods including line integral convolution and tone based method. The experimental results demonstrate that the directional texture can stimulate the manual pencil texture better and the adjusted sketches can mimic the randomness and flexibility of manual pencil drawings.