SIGGRAPH Asia 2015 Technical Briefs

Depth-aware Coherent Line Drawings

M. Spicker, J. Kratt, D. Arellano, O. Deussen

Material

Abstract

In this paper we utilize depth information to extend a line drawing algorithm, improving depth perception and object differentiation in large and spatially complex scenes. We consider different scales of features and apply a flow-based morphological filter to the scenes. Based on this two line drawing styles are defined. The proposed algorithm works in real-time and enables users to manipulate the parameter space through instant visual feedback. We evaluated the effectiveness of our method by performing a user study.

Gallery

For each image:
Top left input, top right result from Kang et al. 2007 - Coherent Line Drawing.
Bottom left: Ours style 1, bottom right: Ours, style 2.

Input images top right and bottom left copyright Jaime Vives Piqueres (jaime-at-ignorancia-dot-org).

BibTeX

@inproceedings{Spicker2015DepthawareCoherent,
  acmid     = {2820909},
  address   = {New York, NY, USA},
  articleno = {1},
  author    = {M. Spicker, J. Kratt, D. Arellano, O. Deussen},
  booktitle = {SIGGRAPH Asia 2015 Technical Briefs},
  doi       = {10.1145/2820903.2820909},
  isbn      = {978-1-4503-3930-8},
  keywords  = {2.5D technique, edge detection, flow-based filtering, line drawing, non-photorealistic rendering},
  location  = {Kobe, Japan},
  numpages  = {5},
  pages     = {1:1--1:5},
  publisher = {ACM},
  series    = {SA '15},
  title     = {Depth-aware Coherent Line Drawings},
  url       = {http://graphics.uni-konstanz.de/publikationen/Spicker2015DepthawareCoherent},
  year      = {2015}
}