Hi all,

as a result of mine and my colleague's master theses I present this new segmentation-based vectorization tool. Basically it allows you to paint some scribbles over a bitmap image, compute segmentation from these and then vectorize the outlines as paths (with manageable number of nodes).

The main intent here is interactive extraction of important image features, as opposed to perfect/automatic vectorization. Small errors can be easily fixed by removing/adjusting some nodes in inkscape. You can easily create cliparts, posterize images or even vectorize fonts (some examples are in the .pdf files).

Feel free to try it out and post feedback.

http://spatium.org/mt

Do you have an example? I never download anything without a screenshot

microUgly wrote:Do you have an example? I never download anything without a screenshot

For now no standalone example except the thesis texts. I have extracted the relevant pages for convenience.
http://spatium.org/mt/example1.pdf
http://spatium.org/mt/example2.pdf

That's pretty clever. It seems to work a lot like Recolored (except the result is different). I had tried Recolored when it was still a research thing and was distributed as Matlab code

microUgly wrote:It seems to work a lot like Recolored

You're probably referring to the scribbling -- that's a common concept among these kinds of software. The segmentation algorithm we use is perhaps a little different and the builtin vectorizer is something that makes the tool unique. However, we don't give any satisfaction guarantees.