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We explore the interpretability of 3D geometric deep learning models in the context of Computer-Aided Design (CAD). The field of parametric CAD can be limited by the difficulty of expressing high-level design concepts in terms of a few…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Stefan Druc , Aditya Balu , Peter Wooldridge , Adarsh Krishnamurthy , Soumik Sarkar

This article proposes a data-driven methodology to achieve a fast design support, in order to generate or develop novel designs covering multiple object categories. This methodology implements two state-of-the-art Variational Autoencoder…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-07 Zhangsihao Yang , Haoliang Jiang , Zou Lan

Sketches, with their expressive potential, allow humans to convey the essence of an object through even a rough contour. For the first time, we harness this expressive potential to improve segmentation performance in challenging tasks like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Ying Zang , Runlong Cao , Jianqi Zhang , Yidong Han , Ziyue Cao , Wenjun Hu , Didi Zhu , Lanyun Zhu , Zejian Li , Deyi Ji , Tianrun Chen

With the widespread adoption of Computer-Aided Design(CAD) drawings in engineering, architecture, and industrial design, the ability to accurately interpret and analyze these drawings has become increasingly critical. Among various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Xianlin Liu , Yan Gong , Bohao Li , Jiajing Huang , Bowen Du , Junchen Ye , Liyan Xu

Early in development, infants learn to extract surprisingly complex aspects of visual scenes. This early learning comes together with an initial understanding of the extracted concepts, such as their implications, causality, and using them…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Shify Treger , Shimon Ullman

We introduce a novel sketch-to-image tool that aligns with the iterative refinement process of artists. Our tool lets users sketch blocking strokes to coarsely represent the placement and form of objects and detail strokes to refine their…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Vishnu Sarukkai , Lu Yuan , Mia Tang , Maneesh Agrawala , Kayvon Fatahalian

Choosing the right representation for geometry is crucial for making 3D models compatible with existing applications. Focusing on piecewise-smooth man-made shapes, we propose a new representation that is usable in conventional CAD modeling…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-02-11 Dmitriy Smirnov , Mikhail Bessmeltsev , Justin Solomon

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

In planning and reinforcement learning, the identification of common subgoal structures across problems is important when goals are to be achieved over long horizons. Recently, it has been shown that such structures can be expressed as…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Michael Aichmüller , Hector Geffner

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

Reverse engineering CAD models from raw geometry is a classic but strenuous research problem. Previous learning-based methods rely heavily on labels due to the supervised design patterns or reconstruct CAD shapes that are not easily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Pu Li , Jianwei Guo , Xiaopeng Zhang , Dong-ming Yan

Due to the large cross-modality discrepancy between 2D sketches and 3D shapes, retrieving 3D shapes by sketches is a significantly challenging task. To address this problem, we propose a novel framework to learn a discriminative deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-06 Jiaxin Chen , Yi Fang

A generative design based on topology optimization provides diverse alternatives as entities in a computational model with a high design degree. However, as the diversity of the generated alternatives increases, the cognitive burden on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Ryo Tsumoto , Kentaro Yaji , Yutaka Nomaguchi , Kikuo Fujita

Recovering CAD models from point clouds requires reconstructing their topology and sketch-based extrusion primitives. A dominant paradigm for representing sketches involves implicit neural representations such as Signed Distance Fields…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Xinzhu Ma , Cheng Wang , Chen Tang , Bin Wang , Shixiang Tang , Yuan Meng , Yunhong Wang , Di Huang

Search and retrieval remains a major research topic in several domains, including computer graphics, computer vision, engineering design, etc. A search engine requires primarily an input search query and a database of items to search from.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Bharadwaj Manda , Prasad Kendre , Subhrajit Dey , Ramanathan Muthuganapathy

Previous researches of sketches often considered sketches in pixel format and leveraged CNN based models in the sketch understanding. Fundamentally, a sketch is stored as a sequence of data points, a vector format representation, rather…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Hangyu Lin , Yanwei Fu , Yu-Gang Jiang , Xiangyang Xue

Sketching provides an intuitive way to convey dynamic intent in animation authoring (i.e., how elements change over time and space), making it a natural medium for automatic content creation. Yet existing approaches often constrain sketches…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Boyu Li , Lin-Ping Yuan , Zeyu Wang , Hongbo Fu

Resolution of the complex problem of image retrieval for diagram images has yet to be reached. Deep learning methods continue to excel in the fields of object detection and image classification applied to natural imagery. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-24 Manish Bhattarai , Diane Oyen , Juan Castorena , Liping Yang , Brendt Wohlberg

There has been considerable recent interest in interpretable concept-based models such as Concept Bottleneck Models (CBMs), which first predict human-interpretable concepts and then map them to output classes. To reduce reliance on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Simon Schrodi , Julian Schur , Max Argus , Thomas Brox

A method of finding and classifying various components and objects in a design diagram, drawing, or planning layout is proposed. The method automatically finds the objects present in a legend table and finds their position, count and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Sourish Sarkar , Pranav Pandey , Sibsambhu Kar
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