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We present sketch-rnn, a recurrent neural network (RNN) able to construct stroke-based drawings of common objects. The model is trained on thousands of crude human-drawn images representing hundreds of classes. We outline a framework for…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-05-22 David Ha , Douglas Eck

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

We present a method to generate a video sequence given a single image. Because items in an image can be animated in arbitrarily many different ways, we introduce as control signal a sequence of motion strokes. Such control signal can be…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-17 Qiyang Hu , Adrian Wälchli , Tiziano Portenier , Matthias Zwicker , Paolo Favaro

Sketch is an important media for human to communicate ideas, which reflects the superiority of human intelligence. Studies on sketch can be roughly summarized into recognition and generation. Existing models on image recognition failed to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-14 Yajing Chen , Shikui Tu , Yuqi Yi , Lei Xu

Sketch semantic segmentation is a well-explored and pivotal problem in computer vision involving the assignment of pre-defined part labels to individual strokes. This paper presents ContextSeg - a simple yet highly effective approach to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Jiawei Wang , Changjian Li

Generating images from human sketches typically requires dedicated networks trained from scratch. In contrast, the emergence of the pre-trained Vision-Language models (e.g., CLIP) has propelled generative applications based on controlling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Shaocong Zhang

With the advancement of generative artificial intelligence, previous studies have achieved the task of generating aesthetic images from hand-drawn sketches, fulfilling the public's needs for drawing. However, these methods are limited to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Lifan Jiang , Shuang Chen , Boxi Wu , Xiaotong Guan , Jiahui Zhang

Sketching is a direct and inexpensive means of visual expression. Though image-based sketching has been well studied, video-based sketch animation generation is still very challenging due to the temporal coherence requirement. In this…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Xinding Zhu , Xinye Yang , Shuyang Zheng , Zhexin Zhang , Fei Gao , Jing Huang , Jiazhou Chen

Visual documentation is an effective tool for reducing the cognitive barrier developers face when understanding unfamiliar code, enabling more intuitive comprehension. Compared to textual documentation, it provides a higher-level…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Luís F. Gomes , Xin Zhou , David Lo , Rui Abreu

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 SketchGNN, a convolutional graph neural network for semantic segmentation and labeling of freehand vector sketches. We treat an input stroke-based sketch as a graph, with nodes representing the sampled points along input…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Lumin Yang , Jiajie Zhuang , Hongbo Fu , Xiangzhi Wei , Kun Zhou , Youyi Zheng

Graphical User Interface (GUI) agents can automate complex tasks across digital environments, but their development is hindered by the scarcity of high-quality trajectory data for training. Existing approaches rely on expensive human…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Yiheng Xu , Dunjie Lu , Zhennan Shen , Junli Wang , Zekun Wang , Yuchen Mao , Caiming Xiong , Tao Yu

Design prototyping involves creating mockups of products or concepts to gather feedback and iterate on ideas. While prototyping often requires specific parts of objects, such as when constructing a novel creature for a video game, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Mo Zhou , Josh Myers-Dean , Danna Gurari

The ability to plan actions on multiple levels of abstraction enables intelligent agents to solve complex tasks effectively. However, learning the models for both low and high-level planning from demonstrations has proven challenging,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Kalle Kujanpää , Joni Pajarinen , Alexander Ilin

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

We introduce ScenarioControl, the first vision-language control mechanism for learned driving scenario generation. Given a text prompt or an input image, Scenario-Control synthesizes diverse, realistic 3D scenario rollouts - including map,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Lili Gao , Yanbo Xu , William Koch , Samuele Ruffino , Luke Rowe , Behdad Chalaki , Dmitriy Rivkin , Julian Ost , Roger Girgis , Mario Bijelic , Felix Heide

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

Most existing sequence generation models produce outputs in one pass, usually left-to-right. However, this is in contrast with a more natural approach that humans use in generating content; iterative refinement and editing. Recent work has…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-26 Machel Reid , Graham Neubig

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

In this paper we take the first steps in studying a new approach to synthesis of efficient communication schemes in multi-agent systems, trained via reinforcement learning. We combine symbolic methods with machine learning, in what is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Erik Jergéus , Leo Karlsson Oinonen , Emil Carlsson , Moa Johansson