Scenes in the real world carry large amounts of information about color, texture, shading, illumination, and occlusion giving rise to our perception of a rich and detailed environment. In contrast, ...

A new study using sophisticated brain scans shows how simple line drawings can capture the essence of a beach or a mountain for viewers just as well as a photograph would. Researchers found that ...

How is it possible for the brain to recognize drawn objects as houses or animals? In a recent study in the Journal of Neuroscience, scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and ...

Informatics Course, Department of Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Gifu University, Gifu, Japan In the present study, we investigated whether expressing ...

Almost everyone can represent objects with a few strokes. Kindergarten children often come home with self-drawn pictures showing mom, dad, or perhaps their own home. And even thousands of years ago, ...

Abstract: As part of the goal of automatic creation of B-rep models of engineering objects from freehand sketches, we seek to take a single line drawing (with hidden lines removed), and from it deduce ...

Abstract: An important research area in computer vision is developing algorithms that can reconstruct the 3D surface of an object represented by a single 2D line drawing. Previous work on 3D ...