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Mechanical metamaterials enable precise control over structural properties, but their design method remains challenging due to their complex structure. Although additive manufacturing has expanded geometric freedom, navigating this vast and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-09-18 Kijung Kim , Seungwook Hong , Wonjun Jung , Wooseok Kim , Namjung Kim , Howon Lee

Sketches serve as fundamental blueprints in artistic creation because sketch editing is easier and more intuitive than pixel-level RGB image editing for painting artists, yet sketch generation remains unexplored despite advancements in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Ruohao Zhan , Yijin Li , Yisheng He , Shuo Chen , Yichen Shen , Xinyu Chen , Zilong Dong , Zhaoyang Huang , Guofeng Zhang

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

In this paper, we present a novel deep method to reconstruct a point cloud of an object from a single still image. Prior arts in the field struggle to reconstruct an accurate and scalable 3D model due to either the inefficient and expensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-18 Anh-Duc Nguyen , Seonghwa Choi , Woojae Kim , Sanghoon Lee

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

3D reconstruction from images is a core problem in computer vision. With recent advances in deep learning, it has become possible to recover plausible 3D shapes even from single RGB images for the first time. However, obtaining detailed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Tao Hu , Geng Lin , Zhizhong Han , Matthias Zwicker

Man-made objects usually exhibit descriptive curved features (i.e., curve networks). The curve network of an object conveys its high-level geometric and topological structure. We present a framework for extracting feature curve networks…

Graphics · Computer Science 2016-03-30 Yuanhao Cao , Liangliang Nan , Peter Wonka

In this paper, we use deep neural networks for inverting face sketches to synthesize photorealistic face images. We first construct a semi-simulated dataset containing a very large number of computer-generated face sketches with different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-25 Yağmur Güçlütürk , Umut Güçlü , Rob van Lier , Marcel A. J. van Gerven

Diffusion probabilistic models have achieved remarkable success in text guided image generation. However, generating 3D shapes is still challenging due to the lack of sufficient data containing 3D models along with their descriptions.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Zijie Wu , Yaonan Wang , Mingtao Feng , He Xie , Ajmal Mian

Exploring contextual information in the local region is important for shape understanding and analysis. Existing studies often employ hand-crafted or explicit ways to encode contextual information of local regions. However, it is hard to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-16 Xinhai Liu , Zhizhong Han , Yu-Shen Liu , Matthias Zwicker

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

Sketch-and-extrude is a common and intuitive modeling process in computer aided design. This paper studies the problem of learning the shape given in the form of point clouds by inverse sketch-and-extrude. We present ExtrudeNet, an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Daxuan Ren , Jianmin Zheng , Jianfei Cai , Jiatong Li , Junzhe Zhang

We introduce an end-to-end learnable technique to robustly identify feature edges in 3D point cloud data. We represent these edges as a collection of parametric curves (i.e.,lines, circles, and B-splines). Accordingly, our deep neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Xiaogang Wang , Yuelang Xu , Kai Xu , Andrea Tagliasacchi , Bin Zhou , Ali Mahdavi-Amiri , Hao Zhang

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

Current advances in deep learning is leading to human-level accuracy in computer vision tasks such as object classification, localization, semantic segmentation, and instance segmentation. In this paper, we describe a new deep convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-07 N. Lakmal Deshapriya , Matthew N. Dailey , Manzul Kumar Hazarika , Hiroyuki Miyazaki

Vector quantization has emerged as a powerful tool in large-scale multimodal models, unifying heterogeneous representations through discrete token encoding. However, its effectiveness hinges on robust codebook design. Current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Hongxuan Li , Wencheng Zhu , Huiying Xu , Xinzhong Zhu , Pengfei Zhu

3D sketches are widely used for visually representing the 3D shape and structure of objects or scenes. However, the creation of 3D sketch often requires users to possess professional artistic skills. Existing research efforts primarily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Yibo Zhang , Lihong Wang , Changqing Zou , Tieru Wu , Rui Ma

We proposed a novel graph convolutional neural network that could construct a coarse, sparse latent point cloud from a dense, raw point cloud. With a novel non-isotropic convolution operation defined on irregular geometries, the model then…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Zhang Yuhui , Greg Gutmann , Konagaya Akihiko

Deep learning with 3D data such as reconstructed point clouds and CAD models has received great research interests recently. However, the capability of using point clouds with convolutional neural network has been so far not fully explored.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-30 Binh-Son Hua , Minh-Khoi Tran , Sai-Kit Yeung

Neural networks have been shown to be an effective tool for learning algorithms over graph-structured data. However, graph representation techniques---that convert graphs to real-valued vectors for use with neural networks---are still in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-10 Shaileshh Bojja Venkatakrishnan , Mohammad Alizadeh , Pramod Viswanath