Structure Preserving Non-Photorealistic Rendering Framework for Image Abstraction and Stylization of Low-Illuminated and Underexposed Images

The proposed abstraction framework manipulates the visual-features from low-illuminated and underexposed images while retaining the prominent structural, medium scale details, tonal information, and suppresses the superfluous details like noise, complexity, and irregular gradient. The significant image features are refined at every stage of the work by comprehensively integrating a series of AnshuTMO and NPR filters through rigorous experiments. The work effectively preserves the structural features in the foreground of an image and diminishes the background content of an image. Effectiveness of the work has been validated by conducting experiments on the standard datasets such as Mould, Wang, and many other interesting datasets and the obtained results are compared with similar contemporary work cited in the literature. In addition, user visual feedback and the quality assessment techniques were used to evaluate the work. Image abstraction and stylization applications, constraints, challenges, and future work in the fields of NPR domain are also envisaged in this paper.

ALGORITMA NON-PHOTOREALISTIC RENDERING UNTUK KARTUN MENGGUNAKAN K-MEANS DAN CANNY

Cartoons are one type of illustration usually in a non-realistic or semi-realistic style. To make a cartoon drawing manually requires good drawing ability. So, not everyone can make cartoons. This research proposes a non-photorealistic rendering algorithm to create cartoon drawings automatically. The algorithm consists of four phases. First, create an image abstraction using bilateral filtering. Second, using kmeans clustering for abstract image quantization. Third, get the contour lines of the drawing using the canny algorithm. Fourth, contour lines and quantized images are combined. The results show that this algorithm can produce good visualization of cartoon images.

Image-Abstraction Framework as a Preprocessing Technique for Extraction of Text From Underexposed Complex Background and Graphical Embossing Images

Underexposed heterogeneous complex-background and graphical embossing text documents are treated using proposed preprocessing image-abstraction framework that can deliver the effective structure preserved abstracted output by manipulating visual-features from input images. Reading of the text character in such images is extremely poor; hence, the framework effectively boosted the significant image properties and quality features at every stage. Work effectively preserves the foreground structure of an image by comprehensively integrating the sequence of NPR filters and diminishes the background content of an image, and in this way, the framework contributes to separation of foreground text from image background. Effectiveness of the proposed work has been validated by conducting the trials on the selected dataset. In addition, user's visual-feedback and image quality assessment techniques were also used to evaluate the framework. Based on the obtained abstraction output, this work extracts text-character by wisely utilizing traditional image processing techniques with an average accuracy of 98.91%.