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We propose a new approach for synthesizing fully detailed art-stylized images from sketches. Given a sketch, with no semantic tagging, and a reference image of a specific style, the model can synthesize meaningful details with colors and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-05 Bingchen Liu , Kunpeng Song , Ahmed Elgammal

Concept-based explainability methods provide insight into deep learning systems by constructing explanations using human-understandable concepts. While the literature on human reasoning demonstrates that we exploit relationships between…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Naveen Raman , Mateo Espinosa Zarlenga , Mateja Jamnik

With recent advances in image-to-image translation tasks, remarkable progress has been witnessed in generating face images from sketches. However, existing methods frequently fail to generate images with details that are semantically and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Binxin Yang , Xuejin Chen , Chaoqun Wang , Chi Zhang , Zihan Chen , Xiaoyan Sun

We present a conceptual space framework for modelling abstract concepts that unfold over time, demonstrated through a chess-based proof-of-concept. Strategy concepts, such as attack or sacrifice, are represented as geometric regions across…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Hadi Banaee , Stephanie Lowry

Concepts are key building blocks of higher level human understanding. Explainable AI (XAI) methods have shown tremendous progress in recent years, however, local attribution methods do not allow to identify coherent model behavior across…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Johanna Vielhaben , Stefan Blücher , Nils Strodthoff

An unsupervised shape analysis is proposed to learn concepts reflecting shape commonalities. Our approach is two-fold: i) a spatial topology analysis of point cloud segment constellations within objects is used in which constellations are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-21 Christian A. Mueller , Andreas Birk

This work introduces PICASSO, a framework for the parameterization of 2D CAD sketches from hand-drawn and precise sketch images. PICASSO converts a given CAD sketch image into parametric primitives that can be seamlessly integrated into CAD…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Ahmet Serdar Karadeniz , Dimitrios Mallis , Nesryne Mejri , Kseniya Cherenkova , Anis Kacem , Djamila Aouada

Template 3D shapes are useful for many tasks in graphics and vision, including fitting observation data, analyzing shape collections, and transferring shape attributes. Because of the variety of geometry and topology of real-world shapes,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Kyle Genova , Forrester Cole , Daniel Vlasic , Aaron Sarna , William T. Freeman , Thomas Funkhouser

Humans are able to precisely communicate diverse concepts by employing sketches, a highly reduced and abstract shape based representation of visual content. We propose, for the first time, a fully convolutional end-to-end architecture that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Moritz Kampelmühler , Axel Pinz

A modular design encourages neural models to disentangle and recombine different facets of knowledge to generalise more systematically to new tasks. In this work, we assume that each task is associated with a subset of latent discrete…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Edoardo M. Ponti , Alessandro Sordoni , Yoshua Bengio , Siva Reddy

In this work we aim to develop a universal sketch grouper. That is, a grouper that can be applied to sketches of any category in any domain to group constituent strokes/segments into semantically meaningful object parts. The first obstacle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-08 Ke Li , Kaiyue Pang , Jifei Song , Yi-Zhe Song , Tao Xiang , Timothy M. Hospedales , Honggang Zhang

Sketches are commonly used in computer systems and network monitoring tools to provide efficient query executions while maintaining a compact data representation. Switches and routers maintain sketches to track statistical characteristics…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Diana Cohen , Roy Friedman , Rana Shahout

Sketching is a widely used medium for generating and exploring early-stage design concepts. While generative AI (GenAI) chatbots are increasingly used for idea generation, designers often struggle to craft effective prompts and find it…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Weiyan Shi , Sunaya Upadhyay , Geraldine Quek , Kenny Tsu Wei Choo

A key challenge in machine learning is to explain how learning dynamics select among the many solutions that achieve identical loss values in overparameterized models - a phenomenon known as implicit bias. Controlling this bias provides a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Nicola Aladrah , Emanuele Ballarin , Matteo Biagetti , Alessio Ansuini , Alberto d'Onofrio , Fabio Anselmi

Sketch-based query formulation is very common in image and video retrieval as these techniques often complement textual retrieval methods that are based on either manual or machine generated annotations. In this paper, we present a…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2019-09-30 Luca Rossetto , Ralph Gasser , Heiko Schuldt

Self-explaining deep models are designed to learn the latent concept-based explanations implicitly during training, which eliminates the requirement of any post-hoc explanation generation technique. In this work, we propose one such model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Anirban Sarkar , Deepak Vijaykeerthy , Anindya Sarkar , Vineeth N Balasubramanian

Recent years have witnessed remarkable progress in generative AI, with natural language emerging as the most common conditioning input. As underlying models grow more powerful, researchers are exploring increasingly diverse conditioning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Ahmed Bourouis , Mikhail Bessmeltsev , Yulia Gryaditskaya

The Design2Code problem, which involves converting digital designs into functional source code, is a significant challenge in software development due to its complexity and time-consuming nature. Traditional approaches often struggle with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Tung D. Vu , Chung Hoang , Truong-Son Hy

High-performing vision language models still produce incorrect answers, yet their failure modes are often difficult to explain. To make model internals more accessible and enable systematic debugging, we introduce VisualScratchpad, an…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Hyesu Lim , Jinho Choi , Taekyung Kim , Byeongho Heo , Jaegul Choo , Dongyoon Han

Creative and communicative work is often underpinned by implicit structures, such as the Hero's Journey in storytelling, design patterns in software, or chord progressions in music. People often learn these structures from examples - a…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Sitong Wang , Samia Menon , Dingzeyu Li , Xiaojuan Ma , Richard Zemel , Lydia B. Chilton