Visual Effects & Animation

SAUCE was a three-year EU Research and Innovation project between Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Foundry, DNEG, Brno University of Technology, Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg, Saarland University, Trinity College Dublin, Disney Research to create ...

Abstract In this paper, we propose a new geometric approach for image decomposition which aims to combine the advantages of two state of the art techniques. Given an input image, ...

Abstract In natural image matting, the goal is to estimate the opacity of the foreground object in the image. This opacity controls the way the foreground and background is blended ...

For the creation of online visual media, various multimedia software products can be used. Although these editing tasks were previously carried out by artists using software applications such as Adobe ...

Abstract We present a method for augmenting hand-drawn characters and creatures with global illumination effects. Given a single view drawing only, we use a novel CNN to predict a high-quality ...

This paper proposes a new colour transfer method with Optimal Transport to transfer the colour of a source image to match the colour of a target image of the same ...

In recent years, there has been an increase in the popularity of Light Field (LF) imaging technology with the increase in availability of LF camera devices such as the Lytro, ...

Optimal Transport is a very popular framework for performing colour transfer in images and videos. We have proposed an alternative framework where the cost function used for inferring a parametric ...

Recently, an example based colour transfer approach proposed modelling the colour distributions of a palette and target image using Gaussian Mixture Models, and registers them by minimising the robust L2 ...

Interactive palette based colour editing applications have grown in popularity in recent years, but while many methods propose fast palette extraction techniques, they typically rely on the user to define ...

In this paper we present a semi-automatic method for creating shades and self-shadows in cel animation. Besides producing attractive images, shades and shadows provide important visual cues about depth, shapes, ...

In this paper we present a new fully automatic pipeline for generating shading effects on hand-drawn characters. Our method takes as input a single digitized sketch of any resolution and ...

In this paper, we introduce a novel interactive depth map creation approach for image sequences which uses depth scribbles as input at user-defined keyframes. These scribbled depth values are then ...

Abstract We present the first generative adversarial network (GAN) for natural image matting. Our novel generator network is trained to predict visually appealing alphas with the addition of the adversarial ...