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We present MS2Mesh-XR, a novel multi-modal sketch-to-mesh generation pipeline that enables users to create realistic 3D objects in extended reality (XR) environments using hand-drawn sketches assisted by voice inputs. In specific, users can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Yuqi Tong , Yue Qiu , Ruiyang Li , Shi Qiu , Pheng-Ann Heng

Generating 3D models from face sketches is an active topic of research in Computer Graphics due to its potential to tremendously facilitate the modeling of faces for both professional 3D arists and novices. Motivated by the observation that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Nancy Iskander

In the early design stage of Japanese detached houses, the lack of a unified design representation among clients, sales representatives, and designers leads to design drift and inefficient feedback. Usually, sketches handed off by sales…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Zhengyang Wang , Nuttapong Rochanavibhata , Yuxiao Ren , Xusheng Du , Ye Zhang , Haoran Xie

Sketching or doodling is a popular creative activity that people engage in. However, most existing work in automatic sketch understanding or generation has focused on sketches that are quite mundane. In this work, we introduce two datasets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Songwei Ge , Vedanuj Goswami , C. Lawrence Zitnick , Devi Parikh

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

Sketching is a natural and effective visual communication medium commonly used in creative processes. Recent developments in deep-learning models drastically improved machines' ability in understanding and generating visual content. An…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-11-22 Forrest Huang , Eldon Schoop , David Ha , Jeffrey Nichols , John Canny

We introduce the concept of code shaping, an interaction paradigm for editing code using free-form sketch annotations directly on top of the code and console output. To evaluate this concept, we conducted a three-stage design study with 18…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Ryan Yen , Jian Zhao , Daniel Vogel

This work aims to investigate the problem of 3D modeling using single free-hand sketches, which is one of the most natural ways we humans express ideas. Although sketch-based 3D modeling can drastically make the 3D modeling process more…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Tianrun Chen , Chenglong Fu , Lanyun Zhu , Papa Mao , Jia Zhang , Ying Zang , Lingyun Sun

Given an abstract, deformed, ordinary sketch from untrained amateurs like you and me, this paper turns it into a photorealistic image - just like those shown in Fig. 1(a), all non-cherry-picked. We differ significantly from prior art in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Subhadeep Koley , Ayan Kumar Bhunia , Aneeshan Sain , Pinaki Nath Chowdhury , Tao Xiang , Yi-Zhe Song

Facial sketches are both a concise way of showing the identity of a person and a means to express artistic intention. While a few techniques have recently emerged that allow sketches to be extracted in different styles, they typically rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Kwan Yun , Kwanggyoon Seo , Chang Wook Seo , Soyeon Yoon , Seongcheol Kim , Soohyun Ji , Amirsaman Ashtari , Junyong Noh

This paper presents VQ-SGen, a novel algorithm for high-quality creative sketch generation. Recent approaches have framed the task as pixel-based generation either as a whole or part-by-part, neglecting the intrinsic and contextual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Jiawei Wang , Zhiming Cui , Changjian Li

During the early stages of interface design, designers need to produce multiple sketches to explore a design space. Design tools often fail to support this critical stage, because they insist on specifying more details than necessary.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Aryan Garg , Yue Jiang , Antti Oulasvirta

The emerging trend of AR/VR places great demands on 3D content. However, most existing software requires expertise and is difficult for novice users to use. In this paper, we aim to create sketch-based modeling tools for user-friendly 3D…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Tianrun Chen , Chaotao Ding , Lanyun Zhu , Ying Zang , Yiyi Liao , Zejian Li , Lingyun Sun

We study the underexplored but fundamental vision problem of machine understanding of abstract freehand scene sketches. We introduce a sketch encoder that results in semantically-aware feature space, which we evaluate by testing its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Ahmed Bourouis , Judith Ellen Fan , Yulia Gryaditskaya

We demonstrate that pre-trained text-to-image diffusion models, despite being trained on raster images, possess a remarkable capacity to guide vector sketch synthesis. In this paper, we introduce DiffSketcher, a novel algorithm for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Ximing Xing , Chuang Wang , Haitao Zhou , Jing Zhang , Qian Yu , Dong Xu

Conceptual product design requires designers to explore the design space of visual and functional concepts simultaneously. Sketching has long been adopted to empower concept exploration. However, current sketch-based design tools mostly…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Runlin Duan , Chenfei Zhu , Yuzhao Chen , Dizhi Ma , Jingyu Shi , Ziyi Liu , Karthik Ramani

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

In the process of product design and digital fabrication, the structural analysis of a designed prototype is a fundamental and essential step. However, such a step is usually invisible or inaccessible to designers at the early sketching…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Deng Yu , Chufeng Xiao , Manfred Lau , Hongbo Fu

Generating images from hand-drawings is a crucial and fundamental task in content creation. The translation is difficult as there exist infinite possibilities and the different users usually expect different outcomes. Therefore, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-02 Shin-I Cheng , Yu-Jie Chen , Wei-Chen Chiu , Hung-Yu Tseng , Hsin-Ying Lee

Video generation and editing conditioned on text prompts or images have undergone significant advancements. However, challenges remain in accurately controlling global layout and geometry details solely by texts, and supporting motion…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Feng-Lin Liu , Hongbo Fu , Xintao Wang , Weicai Ye , Pengfei Wan , Di Zhang , Lin Gao