Abstract
In this paper we propose a method for creating animation and animation-like video sequences from about any ordinary video recorded by any means available. The method is based on the Paintbrush Transformation earlier invented, developed and patented by our Department [7], and on different motion detection algorithms [3,4,5]. One of the goals of the method is to obtain animations, cartoon-like outputs from a usual camera-recorded image sequence. The method inherits the properties of the paintbrush transformation method like well-defined contours, acceptable distortion, a painting-like view with no fine details below a limit. The resulting output is a series of video frames stored as brush-strokes and motion data between the frames, compressed for size reduction. This output can be converted to any available video format by decompression, frame-reconstruction and recompression.