A NOVEL METHOD FOR CHINESE INK PAINTING COLORIZATION

  • Wang, Yun-Wen (Department of Computer Science National Chiao Tung University) ;
  • Hsu, Chia-Min (Department of Computer Science National Chiao Tung University) ;
  • Shih, Zen-Chung (Department of Computer Science National Chiao Tung University)
  • Published : 2009.01.12

Abstract

The Chinese Ink Painting is an art with long history in Chinese culture. Painters can obtain various kinds of scenery by mixing water and ink properly. These papers provides a colorization technique that can transfer gray scale paintings to color paintings. Various colorization techniques for photorealistic images have good results. But these techniques are uncertainly suitable for Chinese Ink Painting. In our method, users only provide a gray scale Chinese Ink Painting and a similar color Chinese Ink Painting subjectively, system can automatically transfer the color from color painting to gray scale painting. We also provide a method for users to refine the automatically generated result.

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