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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

Sketch2Prototype is an AI-based framework that transforms a hand-drawn sketch into a diverse set of 2D images and 3D prototypes through sketch-to-text, text-to-image, and image-to-3D stages. This framework, shown across various sketches,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Kristen M. Edwards , Brandon Man , Faez Ahmed

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

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

The creation of manufacturable and editable 3D shapes through Computer-Aided Design (CAD) remains a highly manual and time-consuming task, hampered by the complex topology of boundary representations of 3D solids and unintuitive design…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Md Ferdous Alam , Faez Ahmed

Deep generative models of 3D shapes have received a great deal of research interest. Yet, almost all of them generate discrete shape representations, such as voxels, point clouds, and polygon meshes. We present the first 3D generative model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Rundi Wu , Chang Xiao , Changxi Zheng

Sketch-based 3D reconstruction remains a challenging task due to the abstract and sparse nature of sketch inputs, which often lack sufficient semantic and geometric information. To address this, we propose Sketch2Symm, a two-stage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Yan Zhou , Mingji Li , Xiantao Zeng , Jie Lin , Yuexia Zhou

Geometry- and appearance-controlled full-body human image generation is an interesting but challenging task. Existing solutions are either unconditional or dependent on coarse conditions (e.g., pose, text), thus lacking explicit geometry…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Linzi Qu , Jiaxiang Shang , Hui Ye , Xiaoguang Han , Hongbo Fu

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

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

Crafting computer-aided design (CAD) models has long been a painstaking and time-intensive task, demanding both precision and expertise from designers. With the emergence of 3D generation, this task has undergone a transformative impact,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Tri Le , Khang Nguyen , Baoru Huang , Tung D. Ta , Anh Nguyen

Generating 3D models from face sketches is an active topic of research in Computer Graphics due to its potential to tremendously facilitate the modeling of faces for both professional 3D arists and novices. Motivated by the observation that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Nancy Iskander

Sketching is a natural and effective visual communication medium commonly used in creative processes. Recent developments in deep-learning models drastically improved machines' ability in understanding and generating visual content. An…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-11-22 Forrest Huang , Eldon Schoop , David Ha , Jeffrey Nichols , John Canny

We tackle a new problem: generating geometrically consistent multi-view scenes from a single freehand sketch. Freehand sketches are the most geometrically impoverished input one could offer a multi-view generator. They convey scene intent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Ahmed Bourouis , Savas Ozkan , Andrea Maracani , Yi-Zhe Song , Mete Ozay

Converting hand-drawn sketches into structured 3D geometries remains challenging due to the difficulty of representing non-Euclidean surfaces and maintaining topological consistency. Existing generative models such as GANs, NeRFs, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Wenda Wang , Anqi Liu , Junqi Yang , Lei He , Luying Wang , Jiachen Lu , Weixin Huang

We present SketchDNN, a generative model for synthesizing CAD sketches that jointly models both continuous parameters and discrete class labels through a unified continuous-discrete diffusion process. Our core innovation is Gaussian-Softmax…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Sathvik Chereddy , John Femiani

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

As 3D models become critical in today's manufacturing and product design, conventional 3D modeling approaches based on Computer-Aided Design (CAD) are labor-intensive, time-consuming, and have high demands on the creators. This work aims to…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Ying Zang , Chenglong Fu , Tianrun Chen , Yuanqi Hu , Qingshan Liu , Wenjun Hu

Recent advances in diffusion models have significantly improved text-to-image (T2I) generation, but they often struggle to balance fine-grained precision with high-level control. Methods like ControlNet and T2I-Adapter excel at following…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Pouyan Navard , Amin Karimi Monsefi , Mengxi Zhou , Wei-Lun Chao , Alper Yilmaz , Rajiv Ramnath

Sketch design concepts are recurring patterns found in parametric CAD sketches. Though rarely explicitly formalized by the CAD designers, these concepts are implicitly used in design for modularity and regularity. In this paper, we propose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Yuezhi Yang , Hao Pan