Lester: rotoscope animation through video object segmentation and tracking

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2402.09883v1
• Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2024 11:15:54 GMT
• Title: Lester: rotoscope animation through video object segmentation and tracking
• Authors: Ruben Tous
• Abstract summary: Lester is a novel method to automatically synthetise retro-style 2D animations from videos. Video frames are processed with the Segment Anything Model (SAM) and the resulting masks are tracked through subsequent frames with DeAOT. Results show that the method exhibits an excellent temporal consistency and can correctly process videos with different poses and appearances.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: This article introduces Lester, a novel method to automatically synthetise retro-style 2D animations from videos. The method approaches the challenge mainly as an object segmentation and tracking problem. Video frames are processed with the Segment Anything Model (SAM) and the resulting masks are tracked through subsequent frames with DeAOT, a method of hierarchical propagation for semi-supervised video object segmentation. The geometry of the masks' contours is simplified with the Douglas-Peucker algorithm. Finally, facial traits, pixelation and a basic shadow effect can be optionally added. The results show that the method exhibits an excellent temporal consistency and can correctly process videos with different poses and appearances, dynamic shots, partial shots and diverse backgrounds. The proposed method provides a more simple and deterministic approach than diffusion models based video-to-video translation pipelines, which suffer from temporal consistency problems and do not cope well with pixelated and schematic outputs. The method is also much most practical than techniques based on 3D human pose estimation, which require custom handcrafted 3D models and are very limited with respect to the type of scenes they can process.

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