Collage Camera

Collage Camera Workflow:

  1. Capture a static initial image and apply stylization:
    • Use a camera to capture a static image as the original material.
    • Apply stylization to the image, enhancing the contrast between light and dark areas, simplifying details, and creating more abstract, block-like color areas. This step aims to highlight the outer contours and reduce complexity in the image, making it easier for subsequent contour extraction.

2. Block segmentation and line information analysis:

  • Segment the stylized image into multiple blocks, with each block containing part of the image.
  • Analyze and process the line information within each segmented block. This may involve edge detection, shape recognition, or further geometric feature analysis within the blocks. The results of the analysis guide how the image is reassembled or used for subsequent collage creation.

3. Prepare a collage material library:

  • The images in the collage material library should contain minimal information to simplify the composition.

4. Stylize the images in the collage material library:

  • Apply stylization to the images in the library, extracting their primary outer contours.

5. Match line features:

  • Compare the line features of each block from the target image with those of the images in the collage material library, selecting the image with the most similar line features to replace the block.

6. Collage assembly:

  • Assemble the collage by pasting the selected replacement images into the corresponding blocks of the target image.