What can human sketches do for object detection?

PN Chowdhury, AK Bhunia, A Sain… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Sketches are highly expressive, inherently capturing subjective and fine-grained visual
cues. The exploration of such innate properties of human sketches has, however, been …

Picture that sketch: Photorealistic image generation from abstract sketches

S Koley, AK Bhunia, A Sain… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Given an abstract, deformed, ordinary sketch from untrained amateurs like you and me, this
paper turns it into a photorealistic image-just like those shown in Fig. 1 (a), all non-cherry …

How to Handle Sketch-Abstraction in Sketch-Based Image Retrieval?

S Koley, AK Bhunia, A Sain… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - openaccess.thecvf.com
In this paper we propose a novel abstraction-aware sketch-based image retrieval framework
capable of handling sketch abstraction at varied levels. Prior works had mainly focused on …

Sketch2Saliency: learning to detect salient objects from human drawings

AK Bhunia, S Koley, A Kumar, A Sain… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Human sketch has already proved its worth in various visual understanding tasks (eg,
retrieval, segmentation, image-captioning, etc). In this paper, we reveal a new trait of …

Exploiting unlabelled photos for stronger fine-grained SBIR

A Sain, AK Bhunia, S Koley… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
This paper advances the fine-grained sketch-based image retrieval (FG-SBIR) literature by
putting forward a strong baseline that overshoots prior state-of-the art by 11%. This is not via …

Control3d: Towards controllable text-to-3d generation

Y Chen, Y Pan, Y Li, T Yao, T Mei - Proceedings of the 31st ACM …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Recent remarkable advances in large-scale text-to-image diffusion models have inspired a
significant breakthrough in text-to-3D generation, pursuing 3D content creation solely from a …

Text-to-Image Diffusion Models are Great Sketch-Photo Matchmakers

S Koley, AK Bhunia, A Sain… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - openaccess.thecvf.com
This paper for the first time explores text-to-image diffusion models for Zero-Shot Sketch-
based Image Retrieval (ZS-SBIR). We highlight a pivotal discovery: the capacity of text-to …

You'll Never Walk Alone: A Sketch and Text Duet for Fine-Grained Image Retrieval

S Koley, AK Bhunia, A Sain… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Two primary input modalities prevail in image retrieval: sketch and text. While text is widely
used for inter-category retrieval tasks sketches have been established as the sole preferred …

It's All About Your Sketch: Democratising Sketch Control in Diffusion Models

S Koley, AK Bhunia, D Sekhri, A Sain… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - openaccess.thecvf.com
This paper unravels the potential of sketches for diffusion models addressing the deceptive
promise of direct sketch control in generative AI. We importantly democratise the process …

Sketchinr: A first look into sketches as implicit neural representations

H Bandyopadhyay, AK Bhunia… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - openaccess.thecvf.com
We propose SketchINR to advance the representation of vector sketches with implicit neural
models. A variable length vector sketch is compressed into a latent space of fixed dimension …