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While manga is a popular entertainment form, creating manga is tedious, especially adding screentones to the created sketch, namely manga screening. Unfortunately, there is no existing method that tailors for automatic manga screening,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Jian Lin , Xueting Liu , Chengze Li , Minshan Xie , Tien-Tsin Wong

Translating information between text and image is a fundamental problem in artificial intelligence that connects natural language processing and computer vision. In the past few years, performance in image caption generation has seen…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-06 Hao Dong , Jingqing Zhang , Douglas McIlwraith , Yike Guo

Realistic and diverse 3D shape generation is helpful for a wide variety of applications such as virtual reality, gaming, and animation. Modern generative models, such as GANs and diffusion models, learn from large-scale datasets and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Jingyuan Zhu , Huimin Ma , Jiansheng Chen , Jian Yuan

Recent years have seen an explosion of work and interest in text-to-3D shape generation. Much of the progress is driven by advances in 3D representations, large-scale pretraining and representation learning for text and image data enabling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Han-Hung Lee , Manolis Savva , Angel X. Chang

We study the problem of shape generation in 3D mesh representation from a small number of color images with or without camera poses. While many previous works learn to hallucinate the shape directly from priors, we adopt to further improve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Chao Wen , Yinda Zhang , Chenjie Cao , Zhuwen Li , Xiangyang Xue , Yanwei Fu

In this paper, we democratise caricature generation, empowering individuals to effortlessly craft personalised caricatures with just a photo and a conceptual sketch. Our objective is to strike a delicate balance between abstraction and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Dar-Yen Chen , Ayan Kumar Bhunia , Subhadeep Koley , Aneeshan Sain , Pinaki Nath Chowdhury , Yi-Zhe Song

Recent deep generative models allow real-time generation of hair images from sketch inputs. Existing solutions often require a user-provided binary mask to specify a target hair shape. This not only costs users extra labor but also fails to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Chufeng Xiao , Deng Yu , Xiaoguang Han , Youyi Zheng , Hongbo Fu

Proliferation of touch-based devices has made sketch-based image retrieval practical. While many methods exist for sketch-based object detection/image retrieval on small datasets, relatively less work has been done on large (web)-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-11-03 Sarthak Parui , Anurag Mittal

Humans possess a unique ability to perceive meaningful patterns in ambiguous stimuli, a cognitive phenomenon known as pareidolia. This paper introduces Shape2Animal framework to mimics this imaginative capacity by reinterpreting natural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Quoc-Duy Tran , Anh-Tuan Vo , Dinh-Khoi Vo , Tam V. Nguyen , Minh-Triet Tran , Trung-Nghia Le

We propose a method to translate cartoon images to real world images using Generative Aderserial Network (GAN). Existing GAN-based image-to-image translation methods which are trained on paired datasets are impractical as the data is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-25 K M Arefeen Sultan , Labiba Kanij Rupty , Nahidul Islam Pranto , Sayed Khan Shuvo , Mohammad Imrul Jubair

In this work, an evolutionary art project is presented where images are approximated by transparent, overlapping and geometric shapes of different types, e.g., polygons, circles, lines. Genotypes representing features and order of the…

Previous animatable 3D-aware GANs for human generation have primarily focused on either the human head or full body. However, head-only videos are relatively uncommon in real life, and full body generation typically does not deal with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Yue Wu , Sicheng Xu , Jianfeng Xiang , Fangyun Wei , Qifeng Chen , Jiaolong Yang , Xin Tong

Drawing images of characters with desired poses is an essential but laborious task in anime production. Assisting artists to create is a research hotspot in recent years. In this paper, we present the Collaborative Neural Rendering (CoNR)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Zuzeng Lin , Ailin Huang , Zhewei Huang

Robotic drawing has become increasingly popular as an entertainment and interactive tool. In this paper we present RoboCoDraw, a real-time collaborative robot-based drawing system that draws stylized human face sketches interactively in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-12-12 Tianying Wang , Wei Qi Toh , Hao Zhang , Xiuchao Sui , Shaohua Li , Yong Liu , Wei Jing

3D Content Generation is at the heart of many computer graphics applications, including video gaming, film-making, virtual and augmented reality, etc. This paper proposes a novel deep-learning based approach for automatically generating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Yongzhi Xu , Yonhon Ng , Yifu Wang , Inkyu Sa , Yunfei Duan , Zhenhong Sun , Yang Li , Pan Ji , Hongdong Li

To coordinate actions with an interaction partner requires a constant exchange of sensorimotor signals. Humans acquire these skills in infancy and early childhood mostly by imitation learning and active engagement with a skilled partner.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Judith Bütepage , Ali Ghadirzadeh , Özge Öztimur Karadag , Mårten Björkman , Danica Kragic

Manga is a world popular comic form originated in Japan, which typically employs black-and-white stroke lines and geometric exaggeration to describe humans' appearances, poses, and actions. In this paper, we propose MangaGAN, the first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Hao Su , Jianwei Niu , Xuefeng Liu , Qingfeng Li , Jiahe Cui , Ji Wan

We present ShapeCrafter, a neural network for recursive text-conditioned 3D shape generation. Existing methods to generate text-conditioned 3D shapes consume an entire text prompt to generate a 3D shape in a single step. However, humans…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Rao Fu , Xiao Zhan , Yiwen Chen , Daniel Ritchie , Srinath Sridhar

We introduce a model that learns to convert simple hand drawings into graphics programs written in a subset of \LaTeX. The model combines techniques from deep learning and program synthesis. We learn a convolutional neural network that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Kevin Ellis , Daniel Ritchie , Armando Solar-Lezama , Joshua B. Tenenbaum

Realistic human geometry generation is an important yet challenging task, requiring both the preservation of fine clothing details and the accurate modeling of clothing-body interactions. To tackle this challenge, we build upon Geometry…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Xiangjun Tang , Biao Zhang , Peter Wonka