# Interactive Cartoonization with Controllable Perceptual Factors

Source: [Interactive Cartoonization with Controllable Perceptual Factors](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa6eb91e209131cea41c83>)

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Data updated: 2026-01-01T16:25:19.995Z

Authors: Namhyuk Ahn, Patrick Kwon, Jihye Back, Kibeom Hong, Seungkwon Kim

Published: 2022-12-19T15:45:47.000Z

## Abstract

Cartoonization is a task that renders natural photos into cartoon styles. Previous deep cartoonization methods only have focused on end-to-end translation, which may hinder editability. Instead, we propose a novel solution with editing features of texture and color based on the cartoon creation process. To do that, we design a model architecture to have separate decoders, texture and color, to decouple these attributes. In the texture decoder, we propose a texture controller, which enables a user to control stroke style and abstraction to generate diverse cartoon textures. We also introduce an HSV color augmentation to induce the networks to generate diverse and controllable color translation. To the best of our knowledge, our work is the first deep approach to control the cartoonization at inference while showing profound quality improvement over to baselines.

## Recorded benchmark results

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- [Cartoonization on Hayao (test)](<https://www.sota2.com/research/sota/cartoonization-on-hayao-test.md>): Cartoonization; Hayao (test); FID: 142.77.

- [Cartoonization on Shinkai (test)](<https://www.sota2.com/research/sota/cartoonization-on-shinkai-test.md>): Cartoonization; Shinkai (test); FID: 132.57.

- [Cartoonization on FreeDraw (test)](<https://www.sota2.com/research/sota/cartoonization-on-freedraw-test.md>): Cartoonization; FreeDraw (test); FID: 103.88.

- [Cartoonization on Barkhan (test)](<https://www.sota2.com/research/sota/cartoonization-on-barkhan-test.md>): Cartoonization; Barkhan (test); FID: 74.68.

- [Image Cartoonization on Cartoonization User Study](<https://www.sota2.com/research/sota/image-cartoonization-on-cartoonization-user-study.md>): Image Cartoonization; Cartoonization User Study; Preference Score: 57.5.

## Original sources and implementation

[Original paper](<https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.09555>)

[PDF](<https://arxiv.org/pdf/2212.09555.pdf>)