Magic Paper: Sketch-Understanding Research

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Summary

In this paper the author describes the basic history of sketch recognition. It's correlation and deviance with the problem of speech recognition. The author here his work in sketch recognition as towards the creation of the 'magic paper' which is as intuitive to use as natural paper and yet it's able to understand what the user has drawn to give him a feel of 'intelligent paper'.

The author thinks that the problem is important even in front of some very good modeling tools because according to a study in cognitive science whose result is that people tend to be more creative and innovative when they are working with more natural utensils than a CAD system.

Author here discusses the difficulties in sketch recognition which are unique to the field or which are common among other fields such as speech recognition.

The author then tries to define a framework in understanding sketch which a popular LADDER system uses quite effectively.

Discussion

A light-weight discussion in the field of sketch recognition. It more sets a tone for research in the field of sketch recognition than any technicalities or innovations.