IPAB Visitor Seminar - 04/06/2025 Speaker: Adrien Bousseau Title: Interpreting Drawings for 3D Design - From Drawing Techniques to Algorithms Abstract: Designers draw extensively to externalize their ideas and communicate with others. But drawings are currently not directly interpretable by computers. To test their ideas against physical reality, designers have to create 3D models suitable for simulation and 3D printing. However, the visceral and approximate nature of drawing clashes with the tediousness and rigidity of 3D modeling. As a result, designers only model finalized concepts, and have no feedback on feasibility during creative exploration. The long-term goal of our group is to bring the power of 3D engineering tools to the creative phase of design by automatically estimating 3D models from drawings. However, this problem is ill-posed: a point in the drawing can lie anywhere in depth. Our originality is to exploit drawing techniques that designers developed to communicate shape most efficiently. Each technique provides geometric constraints that help viewers understand drawings, and that we shall leverage for 3D reconstruction. Bio: Adrien Bousseau is a senior researcher at Inria Université Côte d'Azur in the GraphDeco research group. He completed his PhD at Inria Rhône-Alpes and his postdoc at UC Berkeley. Adrien Bousseau conducts research on image creation and manipulation, particularly drawings and photographs. His work has included image stylization, image editing and relighting, vector graphics, and sketch-based modeling. He received one of three 2011 Eurographics PhD awards for his research on expressive image manipulation, as well as a young researcher award from the French National Research Agency (ANR) for his work on computer-aided drawing. He received an ERC Starting Grant and a Proof of Concept Grant to work on drawing interpretation for 3D design. Jun 04 2025 11.00 - 12.00 IPAB Visitor Seminar - 04/06/2025 Adrien Bousseau (Senior Researcher at Inria Université Côte d'Azur) MF2
IPAB Visitor Seminar - 04/06/2025 Speaker: Adrien Bousseau Title: Interpreting Drawings for 3D Design - From Drawing Techniques to Algorithms Abstract: Designers draw extensively to externalize their ideas and communicate with others. But drawings are currently not directly interpretable by computers. To test their ideas against physical reality, designers have to create 3D models suitable for simulation and 3D printing. However, the visceral and approximate nature of drawing clashes with the tediousness and rigidity of 3D modeling. As a result, designers only model finalized concepts, and have no feedback on feasibility during creative exploration. The long-term goal of our group is to bring the power of 3D engineering tools to the creative phase of design by automatically estimating 3D models from drawings. However, this problem is ill-posed: a point in the drawing can lie anywhere in depth. Our originality is to exploit drawing techniques that designers developed to communicate shape most efficiently. Each technique provides geometric constraints that help viewers understand drawings, and that we shall leverage for 3D reconstruction. Bio: Adrien Bousseau is a senior researcher at Inria Université Côte d'Azur in the GraphDeco research group. He completed his PhD at Inria Rhône-Alpes and his postdoc at UC Berkeley. Adrien Bousseau conducts research on image creation and manipulation, particularly drawings and photographs. His work has included image stylization, image editing and relighting, vector graphics, and sketch-based modeling. He received one of three 2011 Eurographics PhD awards for his research on expressive image manipulation, as well as a young researcher award from the French National Research Agency (ANR) for his work on computer-aided drawing. He received an ERC Starting Grant and a Proof of Concept Grant to work on drawing interpretation for 3D design. Jun 04 2025 11.00 - 12.00 IPAB Visitor Seminar - 04/06/2025 Adrien Bousseau (Senior Researcher at Inria Université Côte d'Azur) MF2
Jun 04 2025 11.00 - 12.00 IPAB Visitor Seminar - 04/06/2025 Adrien Bousseau (Senior Researcher at Inria Université Côte d'Azur)
