ARDECO: Automatic Region DEtection and COnversion

Vector Image Galleries

 

Recovering Vector Graphics

It is sometimes frustrating to obtain a bitmap version of an image that was obviously in vector format before. In that case, our algorithm performs well in recovering a vector form of the image.
 

A photo of a Siggraph 03 T-Shirt.
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The result of our algorithm applied to this photo.

Original bitmap image
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The result of our algorithm.

A well known image (imagine we just got a bitmap version)
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The result of our algorithm.

Original bitmap image
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The result of our algorithm.
Hatched zones are converted into greyscales.
 

Recovering Vector Graphics from paintings

 

A famous painting by Toulouse Lautrec
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The result of our algorithm applied to this painting.

Original bitmap image.
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The result of our algorithm applied to this painting.