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Vector graphics are widely used to represent fonts, logos, digital artworks, and graphic designs. But, while a vast body of work has focused on generative algorithms for raster images, only a handful of options exists for vector graphics.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Pradyumna Reddy , Michael Gharbi , Michal Lukac , Niloy J. Mitra

Image vectorization is a process to convert a raster image into a scalable vector graphic format. Objective is to effectively remove the pixelization effect while representing boundaries of image by scaleable parameterized curves. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Ho Law , Sung Ha Kang

Image tracing is a foundational component of the workflow in graphic design, engineering, and computer animation, linking hand-drawn concept images to collections of smooth curves needed for geometry processing and editing. Even for clean…

Graphics · Computer Science 2018-09-07 Mikhail Bessmeltsev , Justin Solomon

Image vectorization converts raster images into vector graphics composed of regions separated by curves. Typical vectorization methods first define the regions by grouping similar colored regions via color quantization, then approximate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Roy Y. He , Sung Ha Kang , Jean-Michel Morel

In contrast to the well-established technique of rasterization, vectorization of images poses a significant challenge in the field of computer graphics. Recent learning-based methods for converting raster images to vector formats frequently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Qi Bing , Chaoyi Zhang , Weidong Cai

SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) is a widely used graphics format that possesses excellent scalability and editability. Image vectorization, which aims to convert raster images to SVGs, is an important yet challenging problem in computer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Teng Hu , Ran Yi , Baihong Qian , Jiangning Zhang , Paul L. Rosin , Yu-Kun Lai

Image rasterization is a mature technique in computer graphics, while image vectorization, the reverse path of rasterization, remains a major challenge. Recent advanced deep learning-based models achieve vectorization and semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Xu Ma , Yuqian Zhou , Xingqian Xu , Bin Sun , Valerii Filev , Nikita Orlov , Yun Fu , Humphrey Shi

This work presents a progressive image vectorization technique that reconstructs the raster image as layer-wise vectors from semantic-aligned macro structures to finer details. Our approach introduces a new image simplification method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Zhenyu Wang , Jianxi Huang , Zhida Sun , Yuanhao Gong , Daniel Cohen-Or , Min Lu

Recent vision-language model (VLM)-based approaches have achieved impressive results on image vectorization tasks. However, they are typically evaluated on synthetic benchmarks, where clean SVGs are rasterized at high resolution and then…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Tarun Gehlaut , Difan Liu , Charu Bansal , Krutik Malani , Souymodip Chakraborty , Ankit Phogat , Matthew Fisher , Vineet Batra

While portrait sketch generation is a special task in sketch synthesis, most existing methods are pixel-based, limiting their interpretability and editability. With the rise of vector generation techniques, representing sketches using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Yiqi Liang , Ying Liu , Dandan Long , Ruihui Li

The widespread use of vector graphics creates a significant demand for vectorization methods. While recent learning-based techniques have shown their capability to create vector images of clear topology, filling these primitives with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Hengyu Zhou , Hui Zhang , Bin Wang

Vector graphics are widely used in graphical designs and have received more and more attention. However, unlike raster images which can be easily obtained, acquiring high-quality vector graphics, typically through automatically converting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Haokun Zhu , Juang Ian Chong , Teng Hu , Ran Yi , Yu-Kun Lai , Paul L. Rosin

Scalable Vector Graphics (SVGs) are vital for modern image rendering due to their scalability and versatility. Previous SVG generation methods have focused on curve-based vectorization, lacking semantic understanding, often producing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Juan A. Rodriguez , Abhay Puri , Shubham Agarwal , Issam H. Laradji , Pau Rodriguez , Sai Rajeswar , David Vazquez , Christopher Pal , Marco Pedersoli

In the field of computer graphics, the use of vector graphics, particularly Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), represents a notable development from traditional pixel-based imagery. SVGs, with their XML-based format, are distinct in their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Tong Zhang , Haoyang Liu , Peiyan Zhang , Yuxuan Cheng , Haohan Wang

Diffusion models have shown impressive results in text-to-image synthesis. Using massive datasets of captioned images, diffusion models learn to generate raster images of highly diverse objects and scenes. However, designers frequently use…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Ajay Jain , Amber Xie , Pieter Abbeel

Image vectorization is a powerful technique that converts raster images into vector graphics, enabling enhanced flexibility and interactivity. However, popular image vectorization tools struggle with occluded regions, producing incomplete…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Ronghuan Wu , Wanchao Su , Jing Liao

The process of transforming a raster image into a vector representation is known as image tracing. This study looks into several processing methods that include high-pass filtering, autoencoding, and vectorization to extract an abstract…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Zineddine Bettouche , Andreas Fischer

We present a new method for vectorization of technical line drawings, such as floor plans, architectural drawings, and 2D CAD images. Our method includes (1) a deep learning-based cleaning stage to eliminate the background and imperfections…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-20 Vage Egiazarian , Oleg Voynov , Alexey Artemov , Denis Volkhonskiy , Aleksandr Safin , Maria Taktasheva , Denis Zorin , Evgeny Burnaev

Vector image representation is a popular choice when editability and flexibility in resolution are desired. However, most images are only available in raster form, making raster-to-vector image conversion (vectorization) an important task.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Or Hirschorn , Amir Jevnisek , Shai Avidan

Recent advances in image generation have achieved remarkable visual quality, while a fundamental challenge remains: Can image generation be controlled at the element level, enabling intuitive modifications such as adjusting shapes, altering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Lanqing Guo , Xi Liu , Yufei Wang , Zhihao Li , Siyu Huang
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