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What’s New:  Cartoon image generation using AI namely using Convolutional Neural Network and Generative Adversarial  Network.

Key Insight: Cartoons are an artistic form widely used in our daily life. In addition to artistic interests, their applications range from publication in printed media to storytelling for children’s education. Like other forms of artworks, many famous cartoon images were created based on real-world scenes. Figure shows a real-world scene whose cor-responding cartoon image appeared in the animated film. However, manually recreating real-world scenes in cartoon styles is very laborious and involves substantial artistic skills. To obtain high-quality cartoons, artists have to draw every single line and shade each color region of target scenes.

Such tools also provide a useful addition to photo editing software such as Instagram and Photoshop.

How it works: Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have received considerable attention for solving many computer vision problem. Given a style image and a content image, Gatys first proposed a neural style transfer (NST) method based on CNNs that transfers the style from the style image to the content image, An alternative, promising approach to image synthesis is to use Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) which produce state-of-the-art results in many applications such as text to image translation image inpainting, image super-resolution etc. The key idea of a GAN model is to train two networks (i.e., a generator and a discriminator) iteratively, whereby the adversarial loss provided by the discriminator pushes the generated images towards the target manifold.

Why it matters: Meanwhile, existing image editing software/algorithms with standard features cannot produce satisfactory results for cartoonization. Therefore, specially designed techniques that can automatically transform realworld photos to high-quality cartoon style images are very helpful and for artists, tremendous amount of time can be saved so that they can focus on more creative work.

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