Arcimboldo-like Collage Using Internet Images

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Arcimboldo-like Collage Using Internet Images

Hua Huang Lei Zhang Hong-Chao Zhang

Xi’an Jiaotong University, China





Abstract

Collage is a composite artwork made from assemblage of different

material forms. In this work, we present a novel approach for cre-

ating a fantastic collage artform, namely Arcimboldo-like collage,

which represents an input image with multiple thematically-related

cutouts from the filtered Internet images. Due to the massive data

of Internet images, competent image cutouts can almost always be

discovered to match the segmented components of the input image.

The selected cutouts are purposefully arranged such that as a whole

assembly, they can represent the input image with disguise in both

shape and color; but separately, individual cutout is still recogniz-

able as its own being. Experimental results and user study show that

our algorithm can effectively produce the entertaining Arcimboldo-

like collages.

CR Categories: I.3.3 [Computer Graphics]: Picture/Image

Generation—Display algorithm; I.3.6 [Computer Graphics]:

Methodology and Techniques—Interaction techniques; I.4.6 [Im-

age Processing and Computer Vision]: Segmentation—Pixel clas-

sification

Keywords: Arcimboldo collage, internet image, segmentation,

layer ordering

1 Introduction

“Our body is overcoat of the soul inside” — Bhagwad Gita. It

has long been discussed by psychologists and artists about essence

and its physical representation. The essence can still be recogniz-

able even with marked changes on its appearance, while conveys

more information in a compelling way (see Figure 1). This prin-

ciple is artistically realized in the painting artworks by Giuseppe

Arcimboldo, an Italian painter in the Renaissance and honored as

the vanguard of Surrealism. In his paintings, portrait heads are rep-

resented by a variety of symbolic elements like ***its, books (see

Figure 2). Although this sort of “hodgepodge” images looks rather

eccentric, it provides a fascinating form to display the content in an

extravagant yet lucid style [Maiorino 1983], which is also fashion-

able nowadays. This paper focuses on the creation of such collages

with the Arcimboldo-like style.

From their origin dating back to the year 200 BC in China, collages

have gained growing popularity as artistic and collective expression

of photo assemblage [Wikipedia 2011]. However, manually creat-

ing collage is labor intensive and time consuming, which needs del-

icate cutouts as materials and reciprocity on their assembly. Thus,

many approaches work on automating collage cons***ction [Rother

et al. 2006; Wang et al. 2006; Goferman et al. 2010]. These ap-

proaches often produce commendable collages, but confine them-

selves in a regular canvas, which disable the Arcimboldo-like ef-

fect as shown in Figure 2. In [Gal et al. 2007], 3D models instead

of image cutouts are assembled to approximate a 3D shape. Al-

though exhibiting the Arcimboldo-like style, such collage needs a

3D model as the template, which prohibits stylization of various 2D

images without 3D representation.



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