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Generating images from hand-drawings is a crucial and fundamental task in content creation. The translation is difficult as there exist infinite possibilities and the different users usually expect different outcomes. Therefore, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-02 Shin-I Cheng , Yu-Jie Chen , Wei-Chen Chiu , Hung-Yu Tseng , Hsin-Ying Lee

This paper proposes the idea of using a generative adversarial network (GAN) to assist a novice user in designing real-world shapes with a simple interface. The user edits a voxel grid with a painting interface (like Minecraft). Yet, at any…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-09 Jerry Liu , Fisher Yu , Thomas Funkhouser

Urban modeling is essential for city planning, scene synthesis, and gaming. Existing image-based methods generate diverse layouts but often lack geometric continuity and scalability, while graph-based methods capture structural relations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Mengyuan Niu , Xinxin Zhuo , Ruizhe Wang , Yuyue Huang , Junyan Yang , Qiao Wang

In image-based camera localization systems, information about the environment is usually stored in some representation, which can be referred to as a map. Conventionally, most maps are built upon hand-crafted features. Recently, neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Mingpan Guo , Stefan Matthes , Jiaojiao Ye , Hao Shen

Reconstructing a 3D shape based on a single sketch image is challenging due to the large domain gap between a sparse, irregular sketch and a regular, dense 3D shape. Existing works try to employ the global feature extracted from sketch to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-27 Chenjian Gao , Qian Yu , Lu Sheng , Yi-Zhe Song , Dong Xu

In this paper, we investigate a novel problem of using generative adversarial networks in the task of 3D shape generation according to semantic attributes. Recent works map 3D shapes into 2D parameter domain, which enables training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-29 Yassir Saquil , Qun-Ce Xu , Yong-Liang Yang , Peter Hall

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

Sketches are a medium to convey a visual scene from an individual's creative perspective. The addition of color substantially enhances the overall expressivity of a sketch. This paper proposes two methods to mimic human-drawn colored…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-10 V Manushree , Sameer Saxena , Parna Chowdhury , Manisimha Varma , Harsh Rathod , Ankita Ghosh , Sahil Khose

This paper introduces a 3D shape generative model based on deep neural networks. A new image-like (i.e., tensor) data representation for genus-zero 3D shapes is devised. It is based on the observation that complicated shapes can be well…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Heli Ben-Hamu , Haggai Maron , Itay Kezurer , Gal Avineri , Yaron Lipman

Sampling-based path planning is a popular methodology for robot path planning. With a uniform sampling strategy to explore the state space, a feasible path can be found without the complex geometric modeling of the configuration space.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Tianyi Zhang , Jiankun Wang , Max Q. -H. Meng

A generative modeling framework is proposed that combines diffusion models and manifold learning to efficiently sample data densities on manifolds. The approach utilizes Diffusion Maps to uncover possible low-dimensional underlying (latent)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Dimitris G. Giovanis , Ellis Crabtree , Roger G. Ghanem , Ioannis G. Kevrekidis

This work presents a generative adversarial architecture for generating three-dimensional shapes based on signed distance representations. While the deep generation of shapes has been mostly tackled by voxel and surface point cloud…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-27 Marian Kleineberg , Matthias Fey , Frank Weichert

Scene graphs provide a rich, structured representation of a scene by encoding the entities (objects) and their spatial relationships in a graphical format. This representation has proven useful in several tasks, such as question answering,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Sanjoy Kundu , Sathyanarayanan N. Aakur

3D shape models are naturally parameterized using vertices and faces, \ie, composed of polygons forming a surface. However, current 3D learning paradigms for predictive and generative tasks using convolutional neural networks focus on a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-14 Ayan Sinha , Asim Unmesh , Qixing Huang , Karthik Ramani

We consider the task of generating realistic 3D shapes, which is useful for a variety of applications such as automatic scene generation and physical simulation. Compared to other 3D representations like voxels and point clouds, meshes are…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Zhen Liu , Yao Feng , Michael J. Black , Derek Nowrouzezahrai , Liam Paull , Weiyang Liu

Automatic synthesis of faces from visual attributes is an important problem in computer vision and has wide applications in law enforcement and entertainment. With the advent of deep generative convolutional neural networks (CNNs), attempts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Xing Di , Vishal M. Patel

Random graph models are frequently used as a controllable and versatile data source for experimental campaigns in various research fields. Generating such data-sets at scale is a non-trivial task as it requires design decisions typically…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Manuel Penschuck , Ulrik Brandes , Michael Hamann , Sebastian Lamm , Ulrich Meyer , Ilya Safro , Peter Sanders , Christian Schulz

Facial attributes are important since they provide a detailed description and determine the visual appearance of human faces. In this paper, we aim at converting a face image to a sketch while simultaneously generating facial attributes. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-29 Hao Tang , Xinya Chen , Wei Wang , Dan Xu , Jason J. Corso , Nicu Sebe , Yan Yan

We provide a novel approach to construct generative models for graphs. Instead of using the traditional probabilistic models or deep generative models, we propose to instead find an algorithm that generates the data. We achieve this using…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Mihai Babiac , Karolis Martinkus , Roger Wattenhofer

We study how to generate molecule conformations (i.e., 3D structures) from a molecular graph. Traditional methods, such as molecular dynamics, sample conformations via computationally expensive simulations. Recently, machine learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Minkai Xu , Shitong Luo , Yoshua Bengio , Jian Peng , Jian Tang