CATS: Camera-Aided Texture synthesis - Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University

CATS: Camera-Aided Texture synthesis

T. Sethapakdi and J. McCann
Conference Paper, Proceedings of CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '19), May, 2019

Abstract

We present CATS, a digital painting system that synthesizes textures from live video in real-time, short-cutting the typical brush- and texture- gathering workflow. Through the use of boundary-aware texture synthesis, CATS produces strokes that are non-repeating and blend smoothly with each other. This allows CATS to produce paintings that would be difficult to create with traditional art supplies or existing software. We evaluated the effectiveness of CATS by asking artists to integrate the tool into their creative practice for two weeks; their paintings and feedback demonstrate that CATS is an expressive tool which can be used to create richly textured paintings.

BibTeX

@conference{Sethapakdi-2019-113389,
author = {T. Sethapakdi and J. McCann},
title = {CATS: Camera-Aided Texture synthesis},
booktitle = {Proceedings of CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '19)},
year = {2019},
month = {May},
}