Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Fluid Sketches: Continous Recognition and Morphing of Simple Hand-Drawn Shapes

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Summary

This paper mainly talks about the beautification technique which is different from the techniques which have been used by the other sketch recognition systems. In this systems as the user draws a sketch on the system the points of the systems are moved from the original location to the location of the recognized shapes.

Currently the system only supports only two types of shape which are mainly circle and rectangle. The important here in this paper is that the user is getting an immediate feedback by the sketch of the shape it's being recognized into. This interpretation of the system is not final and can change during the course of drawing.

A user study was conducted with eleven subjects and qualitative data was gathered for the system. In general the system was appreciated by the users and subjects could easily pick the concepts of the fluid sketches.

Discussion

This system is very basic, which recognizes only two shapes. It can act as a proof of a concept but it's possibility of becoming a more general system for sketch recognition is still a question, since the system will have to work around many hurdles for full fledged sketch system which can recognize many shapes.

1 comment:

Daniel said...

Yeah, as we discussed in class, the system is basic since it only handles two-three shapes. Depending on the application, it also just seems like you're "stealing" the user's stroke.