Interpreting concept sketches
Tianjia Shao, Wilmot Li, Kun Zhou, Weiwei Xu, Baining Guo, Niloy J. Mitra
In ACM Transactions on Graphics, 32(4), July 2013.
Abstract: Concept sketches are popularly used by designers to convey pose and function of products. Understanding such sketches, however, requires special skills to form a mental 3D representation of the product geometry by linking parts across the different sketches and imagining the intermediate object configurations. Hence, the sketches can remain inaccessible to many, especially non-designers. We present a system to facilitate easy interpretation and exploration of concept sketches. Starting from crudely specified incomplete geometry, often inconsistent across the different views, we propose a globally-coupled analysis to extract part correspondence and inter-part junction information that best explain the different sketch views. The user can then interactively explore the abstracted object to gain better understanding of the product functions. Our key technical contribution is performing shape analysis without access to any coherent 3D geometric model by reasoning in the space of inter-part relations. We evaluate our system on various concept sketches obtained from popular product design books and websites.
Article URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2461912.2462003
BibTeX format:
@article{Shao:2013:ICS,
  author = {Tianjia Shao and Wilmot Li and Kun Zhou and Weiwei Xu and Baining Guo and Niloy J. Mitra},
  title = {Interpreting concept sketches},
  journal = {ACM Transactions on Graphics},
  volume = {32},
  number = {4},
  pages = {56:1--56:10},
  month = jul,
  year = {2013},
}
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