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This tutorial describes the geometry and algorithms for generating line drawings from 3D models, focusing on occluding contours. The geometry of occluding contours on meshes and on smooth surfaces is described in detail, together with…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Pierre Bénard , Aaron Hertzmann

In this paper, we are interested in the problem of generating target grasps by understanding freehand sketches. The sketch is useful for the persons who cannot formulate language and the cases where a textual description is not available on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Haitao Lin , Chilam Cheang , Yanwei Fu , Xiangyang Xue

3D shape modeling is labor-intensive, time-consuming, and requires years of expertise. To facilitate 3D shape modeling, we propose a 3D shape generation network that takes a 3D VR sketch as a condition. We assume that sketches are created…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-11 Ling Luo , Pinaki Nath Chowdhury , Tao Xiang , Yi-Zhe Song , Yulia Gryaditskaya

Sketch-based modeling strives to bring the ease and immediacy of drawing to the 3D world. However, while drawings are easy for humans to create, they are very challenging for computers to interpret due to their sparsity and ambiguity. We…

Graphics · Computer Science 2018-06-20 Johanna Delanoy , Mathieu Aubry , Phillip Isola , Alexei A. Efros , Adrien Bousseau

Hand shadow art is a captivating art form, creatively using hand shadows to reproduce expressive shapes on the wall. In this work, we study an inverse problem: given a target shape, find the poses of left and right hands that together best…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Hao Xu , Yinqiao Wang , Niloy J. Mitra , Shuaicheng Liu , Pheng-Ann Heng , Chi-Wing Fu

Sketching is used as a ubiquitous tool of expression by novices and experts alike. In this thesis I explore two methods that help a system provide a geometric machine-understanding of sketches, and in-turn help a user accomplish a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Raghav Brahmadesam Venkataramaiyer

Researchers have explored various ways to generate realistic images from freehand sketches, e.g., for objects and human faces. However, how to generate realistic human body images from sketches is still a challenging problem. It is, first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Xian Wu , Chen Wang , Hongbo Fu , Ariel Shamir , Song-Hai Zhang , Shi-Min Hu

We present a sketch-based CAD modeling system, where users create objects incrementally by sketching the desired shape edits, which our system automatically translates to CAD operations. Our approach is motivated by the close similarities…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-09-11 Changjian Li , Hao Pan , Adrien Bousseau , Niloy J. Mitra

Sketching is an important activity in any design process. Designers and stakeholders share their ideas through hand-drawn sketches. These sketches are further used to create 3D models. Current methods to generate 3D models from sketches are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Nitish Bhardwaj , Dhornala Bharadwaj , Alpana Dubey

With the involvement of artificial intelligence (AI), sketches can be automatically generated under certain topics. Even though breakthroughs have been made in previous studies in this area, a relatively high proportion of the generated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Yunkui Pang , Zhiqing Pan , Ruiyang Sun , Shuchong Wang

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Hail Song , Wonsik Shin , Naeun Lee , Soomin Chung , Nojun Kwak , Woontack Woo

Shadow art is a captivating form of sculptural expression where the projection of a sculpture in a specific direction reveals a desired shape with high precision. In this work, we introduce Neural Shadow Art, which leverages implicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Caoliwen Wang , Bailin Deng , Juyong Zhang

3D Content Generation is at the heart of many computer graphics applications, including video gaming, film-making, virtual and augmented reality, etc. This paper proposes a novel deep-learning based approach for automatically generating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Yongzhi Xu , Yonhon Ng , Yifu Wang , Inkyu Sa , Yunfei Duan , Zhenhong Sun , Yang Li , Pan Ji , Hongdong Li

Recent deep generative models allow real-time generation of hair images from sketch inputs. Existing solutions often require a user-provided binary mask to specify a target hair shape. This not only costs users extra labor but also fails to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Chufeng Xiao , Deng Yu , Xiaoguang Han , Youyi Zheng , Hongbo Fu

We propose a novel image-to-pencil translation method that could not only generate high-quality pencil sketches but also offer the drawing process. Existing pencil sketch algorithms are based on texture rendering rather than the direct…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Zhengyan Tong , Xuanhong Chen , Bingbing Ni , Xiaohang Wang

Face sketch synthesis has made great progress in the past few years. Recent methods based on deep neural networks are able to generate high quality sketches from face photos. However, due to the lack of training data (photo-sketch pairs),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Chaofeng Chen , Wei Liu , Xiao Tan , Kwan-Yee K. Wong

We present a simple and efficient method based on deep learning to automatically decompose sketched objects into semantically valid parts. We train a deep neural network to transfer existing segmentations and labelings from 3D models to…

Graphics · Computer Science 2018-08-01 Lei Li , Hongbo Fu , Chiew-Lan Tai

Text-to-image models are showcasing the impressive ability to create high-quality and diverse generative images. Nevertheless, the transition from freehand sketches to complex scene images remains challenging using diffusion models. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Tianyu Zhang , Xiaoxuan Xie , Xusheng Du , Haoran Xie

This paper introduces a model for producing stylized line drawings from 3D shapes. The model takes a 3D shape and a viewpoint as input, and outputs a drawing with textured strokes, with variations in stroke thickness, deformation, and color…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-11 Difan Liu , Matthew Fisher , Aaron Hertzmann , Evangelos Kalogerakis

Face modeling has been paid much attention in the field of visual computing. There exist many scenarios, including cartoon characters, avatars for social media, 3D face caricatures as well as face-related art and design, where low-cost…

Graphics · Computer Science 2017-06-08 Xiaoguang Han , Chang Gao , Yizhou Yu