Sketch2Manga: Shaded Manga Screening from Sketch with Diffusion Models

arXiv:2403.08266v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: While manga is a popular entertainment form, creating manga is tedious, especially adding screentones to the created sketch, namely manga screening. Unfortunately, there is no existing method that tailors for automatic manga screening, probably due to the difficulty of generating high-quality shaded high-frequency screentones. The classic manga screening approaches generally require user input to provide screentone exemplars or a reference manga image. The recent deep learning models enables the automatic generation by learning from a …

abstract arxiv cs.cv cs.gr diffusion diffusion models entertainment form manga popular quality screening type