The Decorative PixMosaics: Using Directional Photo Tiles
Jeong Eun Kim; Hyeon Cheol Nah; Kyung Hyun Yoon
Computer Graphics, Imaging and Vision: New Trends, 2005. International Conference on
Volume , Issue , 26-29 July 2005 Page(s): 339 - 344
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/CGIV.2005.78
Summary: This paper introduces a new kind of mosaic, called the Decorative PixMosaic, where photo tiles of square shapes are used to compose the final image. We can express the resulting image with a similar color distribution of input images from small photo tiles. Based on an input image, user-selected edge features and a wide range of photo tiles, the method can both reproduce the images textures and emphasize the selected edges by placing tiles that follow the edges. The voronoi site is situated in the center point of the tile using the Centroidal Voronoi Diagram for equally maintaining the distance among the tiles. To express the edges using tiles on the voronoi site as the center point, tiles do not cross image edges and are drawn up as following edges direction. We use a distribution photo with similar color selected from the photo database. It is important to search for a visually similar photo. Hence we must have a large number of photo tiles.
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