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Generating high-quality 3D models from 2D sketches is a challenging task due to the inherent ambiguity and sparsity of sketch data. In this paper, we present S3D, a novel framework that converts simple hand-drawn sketches into detailed 3D…
Having similar behavior at training time and test time $-$ what we call a "What You See Is What You Get" (WYSIWYG) property $-$ is desirable in machine learning. Models trained with standard stochastic gradient descent (SGD), however, do…