Pixelated image abstraction

  • Authors:
  • Timothy Gerstner;Doug DeCarlo;Marc Alexa;Adam Finkelstein;Yotam Gingold;Andrew Nealen

  • Affiliations:
  • Rutgers University;Rutgers University;TU Berlin;Princeton University;Rutgers University and Columbia University;Rutgers University

  • Venue:
  • NPAR '12 Proceedings of the Symposium on Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

We present an automatic method that can be used to abstract high resolution images into very low resolution outputs with reduced color palettes in the style of pixel art. Our method simultaneously solves for a mapping of features and a reduced palette needed to construct the output image. The results are an approximation to the results generated by pixel artists. We compare our method against the results of a naive process common to image manipulation programs, as well as the hand-crafted work of pixel artists. Through a formal user study and interviews with expert pixel artists we show that our results offer an improvement over the naive methods.