Our primary contribution in this paper is a method for automatically acquiring correspondence between target regions and source regions of different color and texture, which allows us to generate an anime background image while preserving the details of the source image.

In our proposed method, BGMaker, (1) we divide the real and anime images into regions (2) then, we automatically acquire correspondence between each region on the basis of color and texture features, and (3) search and synthesize the most suitable patch within the corresponding region. Thus, to get the most suitable patch, we propose a method, wherein we establish global region correspondence before local patch match. For example, real-world color need to be converted into specific colors for anime further, the type of brushwork required to realize an anime effect, is different for different photograph elements (e.g. However, the nearest-neighbor patch is not always the most suitable patch for anime transfer because photographs and anime background images differ in color and texture. These methods synthesized corresponding source patches with the target elements in a photograph, and correspondence was achieved through nearest-neighbor search such as PatchMatch.

Previous approaches for this purpose, such as Image Quilting transferred a source texture onto a target photograph.

As painting background scenery is time consuming and cost ineffective, there is a high demand for techniques that can convert photographs into anime styled graphics. Anime designers often paint actual sceneries to serve as background images based on photographs to complement characters.

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