title: Towards Photo Watercolorization with Artistic Verisimilitude.
abstract: We present a novel artistic-verisimilitude driven system for watercolor rendering of images and photos. Our system achieves realistic simulation of a set of important characteristics of watercolor paintings that have not been well implemented before. Specifically, we designed several image filters to achieve: 1) watercolor-specified color transferring; 2) saliency-based level-of-detail drawing; 3) hand tremor effect due to human neural noise; and 4) an artistically controlled wet-in-wet effect in the border regions of different wet pigments. A user study indicates that our method can produce watercolor results of artistic verisimilitude better than previous filter-based or physical-based methods. Furthermore, our algorithm is efficient and can easily be parallelized, making it suitable for interactive image watercolorization.
authors.forename: Miaoyi
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Bin
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Yun
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Fei
authors.forename: Kanglai
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Qian
authors.forename: Wenping
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Jiating
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Jun-Hai
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Yong