Dataset for "Higher Level Techniques for the Artistic Rendering of Images and Video"

This dataset contains images and videos demonstrating several Artistic Rendering algorithms presented in the thesis "Higher Level Techniques for the Artistic Rendering of Images and Video". In contrast to techniques that consider only a small image region local to each rendering stroke, or only the current and preceding frame in a video, these algorithms use a higher spatio-temporal level of analysis to broaden the range of potential rendering styles, enhance temporal coherence in animations, and improve the aesthetic quality of renderings.

The images in the dataset are high resolution versions of paintings presented in the thesis (chapters 3 and 4). The videos exhibit various renderings or source footage for the ‘ballet’, ‘basketball’, ‘bounce’, ‘contraption’, ‘cricket’, ‘metronome’, ‘poohbear’, ‘sheep’, ‘spheres’, ‘stairs’, ‘volley’, ‘wand’, and ‘wave’ video sequences (chapters 6 to 8).