Patent ID: 8629883
Filing Date: 2014-01-14
Classification: G06T

Abstract:
1. A method for generating a cartoon, comprising: receiving a digital image for processing at a server; receiving user-specified parameters describing functionality associated with processing the digital image; producing an edgeless primitive color quantization image utilizing one or more of the user-specified parameters, the producing including: generating a sketch from the digital image utilizing one or more of the user-specified parameters with a Difference of Gaussian procedure; applying a coherence enhancing filtering (CED) procedure to enhance the sketch; applying the CED procedure to enhance the edgeless primitive color quantization image, wherein the CED procedure is applied to all channels of the edgeless primitive color quantization image by computing a common diffusion tensor for all the channels, the computing the common diffusion tensor including combining the edgeless primitive color quantization image and the sketch into a processed cartoon, wherein the rendering styles of the edgeless primitive color quantization image and the sketch are different and said combining includes multiplying the edgeless primitive color quantization with the sketch.