Papers
Below are a listing of publications in the field of sketch recognition, grouped into their related categories.
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Posted for reference. Not all of these papers are guaranteed to be assigned reading this semester.
Introduction
Gesture Recognition
- Specifying Gestures by Example
- 'Those Look Similar!' Issues in Automating Gesture Design Advice
- Visual Similarity of Pen Gestures
Corner Finding
- Graphical Input Through Machine Recognition of Sketches
- A curvature estimation for pen input segmentation in sketch-based modeling
- Eliminating False Positives During Corner Finding by Merging Similar Segments
- Sketch Based Interfaces: Early Processing for Sketch Understanding
- ShortStraw: A Simple and Effective Corner Finder for Polylines
Low Level Processing
- PaleoSketch: Accurate Primitive Sketch Recognition and Beautification
- Sketch Based Interfaces: Early Processing for Sketch Understanding
- A Domain-Independent System for Sketch Recognition
Vision Techniques
- Envisioning Sketch Recognition: A Local Feature Based Approach to Recognizing Informal Sketches
- Constellation Models for Sketch Recognition
Hidden Markov Model (HMM) Techniques
Bayesian Networks
Geometric Recognition
- Ambiguous Intentions: a Paper-like Interface for Creative Design
- LADDER, a sketching language for user interface developers
Speed Issues
Learning Descriptions
- Interactive Learning of Structural Shape Descriptions from Automatically Generated Nearmiss Examples
- Perceptually Based Learning of Shape Descriptions for Sketch Recognition
Sketch and Speech
- Speech and Sketching: An Empirical Study of Multimodal Interaction
- Naturally Conveyed Explanations of Device Behavior
Beautification
- Fluid Sketches: Continuous Recognition and Morphing of Simple Hand-Drawn Shapes
- PaleoSketch: Accurate Primitive Sketch Recognition and Beautification
Sketch Applications
- Sketch-Based Educational Games: 'Drawing' Kids Away from Traditional Interfaces
- Recognizing Free-form Hand-sketched Constraint Network Diagrams by Combining Geometry and Context
- JavaSketchIt: Issues in Sketching the Look of User Interfaces
- A Geometric-based Sketch Recognition Approach for Handwritten Mandarin Phonetic Symbols I
- MARQS: Retrieving Sketches Using Domain- and Style-Independent Features Learned from a Single Example Using a Dual-Classifier
- MathPad^2: A System for the Creation and Exploration of Mathematical Sketches
- SILK: Sketching Interfaces Like Krazy
- STRAT: A Sketched-Truss Recognition and Analysis Tool
- Tahuti: A Geometric Sketch Recognition System for UML Class Diagrams