Title: Creating coherent animations from video

Authors: Javier Villegas; George Legrady

Addresses: Media Arts and Technology, University of California, Santa Barbara, 3309 Phelps Hall, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA ' Media Arts and Technology, University of California, Santa Barbara, 3309 Phelps Hall, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA

Abstract: In this paper, different techniques for the creation of time coherent figurative animations from a video input are presented. The animations are generated using an analysis-synthesis approach. Information of the scene is extracted using only a 2D RGB image. No markers or depth planes are needed. After the analysis, the image is drawn again using the extracted information. To guarantee temporal coherence when redrawing the image, different alternatives have been explored: matching and interpolation on the parameters domain and gradient descent parameter update. All methods and variations are described and illustrated with images.

Keywords: analysis-synthesis; non-photorealistic animation; time coherent animations; animation from video; image analysis; information extraction; matching; interpolation.

DOI: 10.1504/IJART.2014.060945

International Journal of Arts and Technology, 2014 Vol.7 No.2/3, pp.148 - 162

Received: 02 Apr 2012
Accepted: 23 Sep 2012
Published online: 21 Jun 2014 *

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