Processing images and video for an impressionist effect

Peter Litwinowicz
1997 Proceedings of the 24th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques - SIGGRAPH '97  
This paper describes a technique that transforms ordinary video segments into animations that have a hand-painted look. Our method is the first to exploit temporal coherence in video clips to design an automatic filter with a hand-drawn animation quality, in this case, one that produces an Impressionist effect. Off-the-shelf image processing and rendering techniques are employed, modified and combined in a novel way. This paper proceeds through the process step by step, providing helpful hints
more » ... or tuning the off-the-shelf parts as well as describing the new techniques and bookkeeping used to glue the parts together.
doi:10.1145/258734.258893 dblp:conf/siggraph/Litwinowicz97 fatcat:wqtqtnrscrhhrfmfj3ukqawihi