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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

Prototyping complex computer-aided design (CAD) models in modern softwares can be very time-consuming. This is due to the lack of intelligent systems that can quickly generate simpler intermediate parts. We propose Text2CAD, the first AI…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Mohammad Sadil Khan , Sankalp Sinha , Talha Uddin Sheikh , Didier Stricker , Sk Aziz Ali , Muhammad Zeshan Afzal

A common need for mobile application development by end-users or in computing education is to transform a sketch of a user interface into wireframe code using App Inventor, a popular block-based programming environment. As this task is…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Daniel Baulé , Christiane Gresse von Wangenheim , Aldo von Wangenheim , Jean C. R. Hauck , Edson C. Vargas Júnior

Recently, text-to-3D approaches have achieved high-fidelity 3D content generation using text description. However, the generated objects are stochastic and lack fine-grained control. Sketches provide a cheap approach to introduce such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Minglin Chen , Weihao Yuan , Yukun Wang , Zhe Sheng , Yisheng He , Zilong Dong , Liefeng Bo , Yulan Guo

Designing 3D objects from scratch is difficult, especially when the user intent is fuzzy without a clear target form. In the spirit of modeling-by-example, we facilitate design by providing reference and inspiration from existing model…

Graphics · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Xiaohua Xie , Kai Xu , Niloy J. Mitra , Daniel Cohen-Or , Baoquan Chen

Generating medical images from human-drawn free-hand sketches holds promise for various important medical imaging applications. Due to the extreme difficulty in collecting free-hand sketch data in the medical domain, most deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Quan Huu Cap , Atsushi Fukuda

Existing text-based 3D generation methods generate attractive results but lack detailed geometry control. Sketches, known for their conciseness and expressiveness, have contributed to intuitive 3D modeling but are confined to producing…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Feng-Lin Liu , Hongbo Fu , Yu-Kun Lai , Lin Gao

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

Character design in games involves interdisciplinary collaborations, typically between designers who create the narrative content, and illustrators who realize the design vision. However, traditional workflows face challenges in…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Long Ling , Xinyi Chen , Ruoyu Wen , Toby Jia-Jun Li , Ray LC

Articulation modeling aims to infer movable parts and their motion parameters for a 3D object, enabling interactive animation, simulation, and shape editing. In this paper, we present Sketch2Arti, the first sketch-based articulation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Yi Yang , Hao Pan , Yijing Cui , Alla Sheffer , Changjian Li

3D model reconstruction from a single image has achieved great progress with the recent deep generative models. However, the conventional reconstruction approaches with template mesh deformation and implicit fields have difficulty in…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Yi He , Haoran Xie , Kazunori Miyata

Graphic layout generation is a growing research area focusing on generating aesthetically pleasing layouts ranging from poster designs to documents. While recent research has explored ways to incorporate user constraints to guide the layout…

Drawing freehand sketches of mechanical components on multimedia devices for AI-based engineering modeling has become a new trend. However, its development is being impeded because existing works cannot produce suitable sketches for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Zhichao Liao , Di Huang , Heming Fang , Yue Ma , Fengyuan Piao , Xinghui Li , Long Zeng , Pingfa Feng

Generating sketches guided by reference styles requires precise transfer of stroke attributes, such as line thickness, deformation, and texture sparsity, while preserving semantic structure and content fidelity. To this end, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Rui Yang , Huining Li , Yiyi Long , Xiaojun Wu , Shengfeng He

In this paper, we focus on how artificial intelligence (AI) can be used to assist users in the creation of anime portraits, that is, converting rough sketches into anime portraits during their sketching process. The input is a sequence of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Zhengyu Huang , Haoran Xie , Tsukasa Fukusato , Kazunori Miyata

The requirement for 3D content is growing as AR/VR application emerges. At the same time, 3D modelling is only available for skillful experts, because traditional methods like Computer-Aided Design (CAD) are often too labor-intensive and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Ying Zang , Yidong Han , Chaotao Ding , Jianqi Zhang , Tianrun Chen

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 propose an interactive GAN-based sketch-to-image translation method that helps novice users create images of simple objects. As the user starts to draw a sketch of a desired object type, the network interactively recommends plausible…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-27 Arnab Ghosh , Richard Zhang , Puneet K. Dokania , Oliver Wang , Alexei A. Efros , Philip H. S. Torr , Eli Shechtman

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

Imagining a colored realistic image from an arbitrarily drawn sketch is one of the human capabilities that we eager machines to mimic. Unlike previous methods that either requires the sketch-image pairs or utilize low-quantity detected…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-24 Bingchen Liu , Yizhe Zhu , Kunpeng Song , Ahmed Elgammal