Abstract:

To avoid the drawbacks of image segmentation used in many pencil drawing researches, we propose a new solution to generate pencil drawing based on texture and profile. Principal component analysis (PCA) is used to analyze the original image, and parameters of high-boost filter (HBT) determined. Edges in the image are located by combining some similarity measures. Line integral convolution (LIC) is used to generate the original image’s texture. Pencil drawing is finally created by superposition of the edge image and the texture image. Experimental results show that the proposed method is simple and effective.

Key words: texture; profile; pencil drawing