Interactive Images: Cuboid Proxies for Smart Image Manipulation
Youyi Zheng, Xiang Chen, Ming-Ming Cheng, Kun Zhou, Shi-Min Hu, Niloy J. Mitra
ACM SIGGRAPH 2012

Abstract:

Images are static and lack important depth information of underlying 3D scenes. We introduce interactive images in the context of man-made environments wherein objects are simple, regular, share various non-local relations (e.g., coplanarity, repetitions, etc.), and are often repeated. We present an interactive framework to create a partial scene reconstruction based on cuboid-proxies using minimal user interaction. This enables a range of intuitive image edits mimicking real-world behavior, which are otherwise difficult to achieve. Effectively, the user simply provides high-level semantic hints, while our system ensures plausible operations by conforming to the extracted non-local relations. We demonstrate our system on a range of real-world images and validate the plausibility of the results using a user study.

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Acknowledgements:

We thank the anonymous reviewers, Danny Cohen-Or, and Peter Wonka for their many useful comments and feedback; Duygu Ceylan, Hung-Kuo Chu, and Yongliang Yang for proof-reading the paper draft; and Sawsan Alhalawani for video voiceover. The work was partially supported by a KAUST visiting student scholarship, NSFC grant, the 973 Program grant, and the Marie Curie Career Integration Grant. We thank Tuhin for sharing his toys.

Bibtex:

@article{zcczhm_interactiveImages_sigg12,
AUTHOR = "Youyi Zheng and Xiang Chen and Ming-Ming Cheng and Kun Zhou and Shi-Min Hu and Niloy J. Mitra",
TITLE = "Interactive Images: Cuboid Proxies for Smart Image Manipulation",
JOURNAL = "ACM Transactions on Graphics",
VOLUME = "31",
NUMBER = "4", 
YEAR = "2012",
pages = {99:1--99:11},
articleno = {99},
numpages = {11},
}

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