“Layered Reconstruction of Stippling Art” by Parakkat, Memari and Cani
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- Layered Reconstruction of Stippling Art
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Given a point set S ⊆ R 2 , reconstruction refers to the process of identifying a vector shape that best approximates the input. Although this field was pioneered since 1983 by Edelsbrunner [Edelsbrunner et al. 2006] and has been heavily studied since then, the general problem still remains open, ill-posed and challenging. Solving it is essential for a wide range of applications, from image processing, pattern recognition and sketching to wireless networks. The main motivation of our work is extend reconstruction to the case of stippled art (for eg. Hedcut drawings), as well as finding an inverse to the well studied problem of image conversion to blue noise (see for instance deGoes et al. [de Goes et al. 2012]). Solution to this problem is extremely difficult since we expect reconstruction to be consistent with human cognition and perception of the art piece, while possible feature extraction heavily depends on various parameters of the input point set (density, distribution etc). In this work, we introduce a dedicated variant of traditional 2D reconstruction in which the input point set (a stippled image) can include different regions corresponding to different point densities.
Our method converts this input into a layered, vector representation, which includes a main shape plus internal, closed regions, defined by their boundary. Providing such structured output eases subsequent editing and processing, such as generating shaded vector images from the stippled input [Orzan et al. 2008]. To achieve this, we first apply a layered reconstruction algorithm based on the detected regions in the input point set, and use the output for generating the outer and inner shape boundaries in the stippled drawing.
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