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B'ezierSketch: A generative model for scalable vector sketches

arXiv 2007.02190 ↗First posted 4 Jul 2020cs.CV cs.LG eess.IVcited by 43

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The study of neural generative models of human sketches is a fascinating contemporary modeling problem due to the links between sketch image generation and the human drawing process. The landmark SketchRNN provided breakthrough by sequentially generating sketches as a sequence of waypoints. However this leads to low-resolution image generation, and failure to model long sketches. In this paper we present B'ezierSketch, a novel generative model for fully vector sketches that are automatically scalable and high-resolution. To this end, we first introduce a novel inverse graphics approach to stroke embedding that trains an encoder to embed each stroke to its best fit B'ezier curve. This enables us to treat sketches as short sequences of paramaterized strokes and thus train a recurrent sketch generator with greater capacity for longer sketches, while producing scalable high-resolution results. We report qualitative and quantitative results on the Quick, Draw! benchmark.

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  1. 2022SkexGen: Autoregressive Generation of CAD Construction Sequences with Disentangled Codebookscited by 121
  2. 2021CanvasVAE: Learning to Generate Vector Graphic Documentscited by 93
  3. 2022Learning to generate line drawings that convey geometry and semanticscited by 82
  4. 2022FS-COCO: Towards Understanding of Freehand Sketches of Common Objects in Contextcited by 47
  5. 2024SketchAgent: Language-Driven Sequential Sketch Generationcited by 30
  6. 2021De-rendering Stylized Textscited by 24
  7. 2022Neural Face Identification in a 2D Wireframe Projection of a Manifold Objectcited by 18
  8. 2022AutoLink: Self-supervised Learning of Human Skeletons and Object Outlines by Linking Keypointscited by 17
  9. 2021Cloud2Curve: Generation and Vectorization of Parametric Sketchescited by 16
  10. 2023Wired Perspectives: Multi-View Wire Art Embraces Generative AIcited by 16
  11. 2023ChiroDiff: Modelling chirographic data with Diffusion Modelscited by 14
  12. 2024SketchINR: A First Look into Sketches as Implicit Neural Representationscited by 13
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  2. 2023SketchXAI: A First Look at Explainability for Human Sketchescited by 10
  3. 2023SketchDreamer: Interactive Text-Augmented Creative Sketch Ideationcited by 10
  4. 2024How to Handle Sketch-Abstraction in Sketch-Based Image Retrieval?cited by 10
  5. 2024FlipSketch: Flipping Static Drawings to Text-Guided Sketch Animationscited by 8
  6. 2023Sketch Video Synthesiscited by 4
  7. 2024What Sketch Explainability Really Means for Downstream Taskscited by 4
  8. 2021Calliar: An Online Handwritten Dataset for Arabic Calligraphycited by 2
  9. 2023DSS: Synthesizing long Digital Ink using Data augmentation, Style encoding and Split generationcited by 2
  10. 2024Do Generalised Classifiers really work on Human Drawn Sketches?cited by 2
  11. 2025From Fragment to One Piece: A Survey on AI-Driven Graphic Designcited by 2
  12. 2025StrokeFusion: Vector Sketch Generation via Joint Stroke-UDF Encoding and Latent Sequence Diffusioncited by 2
  13. 2026VideoSketcher: Sequential Sketch Generation Using Video Model Priorscited by 2
  14. 2022Inkorrect: Online Handwriting Spelling Correctioncited by 1
  15. 2023Conditional Human Sketch Synthesis with Explicit Abstraction Controlcited by 1
  16. 2024SketchTriplet: Self-Supervised Scenarized Sketch-Text-Image Triplet Generationcited by 1
  17. 2025Sketch & Paint: Stroke-by-Stroke Evolution of Visual Artworkscited by 1
  18. 2025Stroke2Sketch: Harnessing Stroke Attributes for Training-Free Sketch Generationcited by 1
  19. 2025On the Temporality for Sketch Representation Learningcited by 1
  20. 2026Stroke of Surprise: Progressive Semantic Illusions in Vector Sketchingcited by 1
  21. 2026Teaching an Agent to Sketch One Part at a Timecited by 1
  22. 2022Character Generation through Self-Supervised Vectorizationcited by 0
  23. 2022Multimodal Query-guided Object Localizationcited by 0
  24. 2023Sampling and Ranking for Digital Ink Generation on a tight computational budgetcited by 0
  25. 2023Adversarial Doodles: Interpretable and Human-drawable Attacks Provide Describable Insightscited by 0
  26. 2024Hybrid Classical-Quantum architecture for vectorised image classification of hand-written sketchescited by 0
  27. 2025ViSketch-GPT: Collaborative Multi-Scale Feature Extraction for Sketch Recognition and Generationcited by 0
  28. 2025Vector sketch animation generation with differentiable motion trajectoriescited by 0
  29. 2025Bridging Vision, Language, and Mathematics: Pictographic Character Reconstruction with B'ezier Curvescited by 0
  30. 2026SketchMamba: A Lightweight State-Space Model for Joint Progressive Sketch Classification and Stroke Auto-Completioncited by 0
  31. 2026CubicSplat: Differentiable Vector Graphics via Error-Bounded Forward Relaxationcited by 0