Template Based Image Mosaics

We propose an image mosaic method based on tile template. Compared with a conventional mosaic which is comprised of the circle or the square tiles, our approach uses the arbitrary shaped tiles. But an arbitrary shaped tile leaves the excessive gap between tiles in the mosaic construction. Then the gap makes it difficult to preserve the fine detail of an original image. Our approach controls overlap between tiles to minimize the gap by using the mask technique and adopts stackable technique to represent the fine detail of a source image automatically.