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Parametric computer-aided design (CAD) is the dominant paradigm in mechanical engineering for physical design. Distinguished by relational geometry, parametric CAD models begin as two-dimensional sketches consisting of geometric primitives…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Ari Seff , Yaniv Ovadia , Wenda Zhou , Ryan P. Adams

Reconstructing 3D human shapes from 2D images has received increasing attention recently due to its fundamental support for many high-level 3D applications. Compared with natural images, freehand sketches are much more flexible to depict…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Fei Wang , Kongzhang Tang , Hefeng Wu , Baoquan Zhao , Hao Cai , Teng Zhou

The rapid progress in diffusion models, transformers, and language agents has unlocked new possibilities, yet their potential in user interfaces and commercial applications remains underexplored. We present Sketch-Search Agent, a novel…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Edward Sun

Accurately drawing 3D objects is difficult for untrained individuals, as it requires an understanding of perspective and its effects on geometry and proportions. Step-by-step tutorials break the complex task of sketching an entire object…

Graphics · Computer Science 2016-07-28 James W. Hennessey , Han Liu , Holger Winnemöller , Mira Dontcheva , Niloy J. Mitra

Bioscientists frequently seek to visualize the biological systems they have empirically characterized and reported in the literature. Realizing such visualizations requires biological structure modeling, an inherently complex process that…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Donggang Jia , Yunhai Wang , Ivan Viola

Video generation and editing conditioned on text prompts or images have undergone significant advancements. However, challenges remain in accurately controlling global layout and geometry details solely by texts, and supporting motion…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Feng-Lin Liu , Hongbo Fu , Xintao Wang , Weicai Ye , Pengfei Wan , Di Zhang , Lin Gao

Synthesizability remains a critical bottleneck in generative molecular design. While recent advances have addressed synthesizability in 2D graphs, extending these constraints to 3D for geometry-based conditional generation remains largely…

The rise of AR/VR has led to an increased demand for 3D content. However, the traditional method of creating 3D content using Computer-Aided Design (CAD) is a labor-intensive and skill-demanding process, making it difficult to use for…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Ying Zang , Chaotao Ding , Tianrun Chen , Papa Mao , Wenjun Hu

Computational methods that operate on three-dimensional molecular structure have the potential to solve important questions in biology and chemistry. In particular, deep neural networks have gained significant attention, but their…

Generating precise 3D molecular geometries is crucial for drug discovery and material science. While prior efforts leverage 1D representations like SELFIES to ensure molecular validity, they fail to fully exploit the rich chemical knowledge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Zhanpeng Chen , Weihao Gao , Shunyu Wang , Yanan Zhu , Hong Meng , Yuexian Zou

Conceptual product design requires designers to explore the design space of visual and functional concepts simultaneously. Sketching has long been adopted to empower concept exploration. However, current sketch-based design tools mostly…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Runlin Duan , Chenfei Zhu , Yuzhao Chen , Dizhi Ma , Jingyu Shi , Ziyi Liu , Karthik Ramani

Topology optimization (TO) is employed in engineering to optimize structural performance while maximizing material efficiency. However, traditional TO methods incur significant computational and time costs. Although research has leveraged…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Shuyue Feng , Cedric Caremel , Yoshihiro Kawahara

Significant progress has recently been made in creative applications of large pre-trained models for downstream tasks in 3D vision, such as text-to-shape generation. This motivates our investigation of how these pre-trained models can be…

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Accurate physical modeling with 3D-printing techniques could lead to new approaches to study structure and dynamics of biological systems complementing computational methods. Computational biology has become an important part of research…

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Sketching algorithms or sketches have emerged as a promising alternative to the traditional packet sampling-based network telemetry solutions. At a high level, they are attractive because of their high resource efficiency and accuracy…

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3D modeling is becoming a well-developed field of medicine, but its applicability can be limited due to the lack of software allowing for easy utilizations of generated 3D visualizations. By leveraging recent advances in virtual reality, we…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-12-07 Alex J. Deakyne , Erik N. Gaasedelen , Tinen L. Iles , Paul A. Iaizzo

A sketch is one of the most intuitive and versatile tools humans use to convey their ideas visually. An animated sketch opens another dimension to the expression of ideas and is widely used by designers for a variety of purposes. Animating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Rinon Gal , Yael Vinker , Yuval Alaluf , Amit H. Bermano , Daniel Cohen-Or , Ariel Shamir , Gal Chechik

Hand-drawn sketches are a natural and efficient medium for capturing and conveying ideas. Despite significant advancements in controllable natural image generation, translating freehand sketches into structured, machine-readable diagrams…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Cheng Tan , Qi Chen , Jingxuan Wei , Gaowei Wu , Zhangyang Gao , Siyuan Li , Bihui Yu , Ruifeng Guo , Stan Z. Li

Generative models for molecules based on sequential line notation (e.g. SMILES) or graph representation have attracted an increasing interest in the field of structure-based drug design, but they struggle to capture important 3D spatial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Wei Feng , Lvwei Wang , Zaiyun Lin , Yanhao Zhu , Han Wang , Jianqiang Dong , Rong Bai , Huting Wang , Jielong Zhou , Wei Peng , Bo Huang , Wenbiao Zhou

We, as a society, need artists to help us interpret and explain science, but what does an artist's studio look like when today's science is built upon the language of large, increasingly complex data? This paper presents a data…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Bridger Herman , Francesca Samsel , Annie Bares , Seth Johnson , Greg Abram , Daniel F. Keefe