Sketch2Cartoon: composing cartoon images by sketching

  • Authors:
  • Changhu Wang;Jun Zhang;Bruce Yang;Lei Zhang

  • Affiliations:
  • Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, China;Biological Intelligence and Information Lab, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China;Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, China;Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, China

  • Venue:
  • MM '11 Proceedings of the 19th ACM international conference on Multimedia
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

In this paper, we introduce the Sketch2Cartoon system, which is an automatic cartoon making system by leveraging a novel sketch-based clipart image search engine. Different from existing work, most of which either limited users to the pre-prepared characters or only used keyword queries to search materials, Sketch2Cartoon enables users to sketch major curves of characters and props in their mind, and real-time search results from millions of clipart images could be selected to compose the cartoon images. The selected components are vectorized and thus could be further edited. By enabling sketch-based input, the cartoon image making process becomes more natural, and even a child who is too young to read or write can draw whatever he/she imagines and get interesting cartoon images.