Summary of Freehand Sketch Generation From Mechanical Components, by Zhichao Liao et al.
Freehand Sketch Generation from Mechanical Components
by Zhichao Liao, Di Huang, Heming Fang, Yue Ma, Fengyuan Piao, Xinghui Li, Long Zeng, Pingfa Feng
First submitted to arxiv on: 12 Aug 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Graphics (cs.GR); Multimedia (cs.MM)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary In this paper, researchers develop a two-stage generative framework called MSFormer to produce freehand sketches of mechanical components for AI-based engineering modeling. The first stage uses Open CASCADE technology to generate multi-view contour sketches from mechanical components, filtering out perturbing signals. The second stage translates these contour sketches into freehand sketches using a transformer-based generator and edge-constraint stroke initialization. The framework also incorporates a CLIP vision encoder and a new loss function incorporating the Hausdorff distance to enhance generalizability and robustness. Experiments demonstrate state-of-the-art performance for generating freehand sketches in the mechanical domain. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper creates a special machine that can draw pictures of machines, which is useful for designing new machines. The problem is that most drawing machines aren’t good at drawing things by hand, like a person would. To fix this, the researchers made a special machine called MSFormer that can draw pictures of machines in a way that looks like it was drawn by hand. It works by first creating a outline of the machine and then adding details to make it look more realistic. The machine is very good at drawing pictures of machines and could be used in many different fields, such as engineering and design. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Encoder » Loss function » Transformer
