Three-dimensional proxies for hand-drawn characters

Algorithms for matching hand-drawn sketches

Hand-Drawn Maps for Robot Navigation

The goal of this work is to create a robot interface that allows a novice user to guide, control, and/or program a robot to perform some task. The assumption is that, although the user may be a domain expert in how the task should be done, he is not an expert in robotics. During the actual robot use, he should focus on the task to be done rather than worrying about the robot or the interaction ...

Spatial dispersion in three-dimensional drawn magnetic metamaterials.

We characterize spatial dispersion in longitudinally invariant drawn metamaterials with a magnetic response at terahertz frequencies, whereby a change in the angle of the incident field produces a shift in the resonant frequency. We present a simple analytical model to predict this shift. We also demonstrate that the spatial dispersion is eliminated by breaking the longitudinal invariance using...

Free Hand-Drawn Sketch Segmentation

In this paper, we study the problem of how to segment a freehand sketch at the object level. By carefully considering the basic principles of human perceptual organization, a real-time solution is presented to automatically segment a user’s sketch during his/her drawing. First, a graph-based sketch segmentation algorithm is proposed to segment a cluttered sketch into multiple parts based on the...

Mimicking Hand-Drawn Pencil Lines

We provide a system that will serve as a high quality pencil media line reproduction agent for creating aesthetically pleasing lines that mimic human-drawn lines. The method avoids computationally expensive techniques and large storage space. The system is not intended to replace artists or illustration, but to provide a tool for users with no training to produce traditional images using a penc...