The genesis of DevOps comes from the need to break down the silos and get better ownership of the delivered product and better collaboration across teams. It entails two major components of the business space – Development and Operations.
Typically, DevOps is the practice of the development and operations teams working together from the start of the software development lifecycle (SDLC) and through deployment and operations.
…Whether it is aligning the goals and priorities to promote cross-functional team collaboration or shifting older infrastructure models, DevOps poses certain challenges to enterprises. Read More
Daily Archives: July 28, 2020
Learning to Cartoonize Using White-box Cartoon Representations
This paper presents an approach for image cartoonization. By observing the cartoon painting behavior and consulting artists, we propose to separately identify three white-box representations from images: the surface representation that contains a smooth surface of cartoon images, the structure representation that refers to the sparse color-blocks and flatten global content in the celluloid style workflow, and the texture representation that reflects high-frequency texture, contours, and details in cartoon images. A Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) framework is used to learn the extracted representations and to cartoonize images.
The learning objectives of our method are separately based on each extracted representations, making our framework controllable and adjustable. This enables our approach to meet artists’ requirements in different styles and diverse use cases. Qualitative comparisons and quantitative analyses, as well as user studies, have been conducted to validate the effectiveness of this approach, and our method outperforms previous methods in all comparisons. Finally, the ablation study demonstrates the influence of each component in our framework. Read More
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