Real-Time Image and Video Artistic Style Rendering System Based on GPU

Yang Zhao, Guowu Yuan, Hao Wu, Yuanyuan Pu, Dan Xu

Abstract: Aiming at the practical engineering application of video stylization, in this paper, a GPU-based video art stylization algorithm is proposed, and a real-time video art stylization rendering system is implemented. The four most common artistic styles including cartoon, oil painting, pencil painting and watercolor painting are realized in this system rapidly. Moreover, the system makes good use of the GPU’s parallel computing characteristics, transforms the video stylized rendering algorithm into the texture image rendering process, accelerates the time-consuming pixel traversal processing in parallel and avoids the loop processing of the traditional CPU. Experiments show that the four art styles achieved good results, and the system has a good interactive experience.