High-level Shape Representations for Content Creation

用于内容创建的高级形状表示

• 批准号: RGPIN-2015-05407
• 负责人: VanKaick, Oliver
• 金额: $ 2.11万
• 依托单位: Carleton University
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Discovery Grants Program - Individual
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2019-01-01 至 2020-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=683111
• 关键词: level; Shape; Representations; Content; Creation

We propose to investigate high-level representations to facilitate content creation. The creation of geometric content is an important task in areas such as computer graphics and animation, visual effects, game development, and fabrication-oriented design. The most common approach for creating 3D content is by directly modeling the geometry of 3D shapes. However, modeling is a laborious task where artists need to be skilled to use the conventional software tools, which typically involve working on low-level shape representations, e.g., triangle meshes. ***Thus, during the last decade, efforts in computer graphics have focused on the task of facilitating the creation of 3D models. A recent trend towards this direction is to represent shapes as a collection of primitives defined at a more semantic level, e.g., shape parts (such as the legs, seat and back of a chair). These representations allow manipulating shapes at a more abstract level, independently of the underlying low-level representation. High-level representations can also be used to synthesize new models or to guide the modeling of shapes or exploration of a shape space by capturing additional aspects of the structure and appearance of shapes.***In this context, the goal of the proposed research program is to develop high-level representations for shape manipulation and synthesis to facilitate the creation of geometric content, especially 3D shapes. The successful use of such representations requires three components: 1) A shape representation that is suitable for the target applications; 2) Algorithms that automatically or semi-automatically build the representations for existing geometric data; and 3) Guiding mechanisms that allow a user to employ the representations for content creation. Thus, these three components comprise the research streams of the program. ***In the first stream, we will investigate the design of shape representations that are more suitable for manipulation and synthesis. In the second stream, our goal is to study how big data analytics can lead to significant advancements in shape analysis, and facilitate the automatic construction of the high-level representations. In the third stream, we will investigate the development of guiding mechanisms that can support creative modeling. We expect that, in the long term, this program can contribute to facilitating the creation of content and thus be of interest to the design and entertainment industries.

我们建议研究高级表示以促进内容创建。在计算机图形和动画，视觉效果，游戏开发和面向制造的设计等领域，几何内容的创建是一项重要任务。创建3D内容的最常见方法是直接建模3D形状的几何形状。但是，建模是一项艰巨的任务，其中需要熟练使用传统的软件工具，该工具通常涉及从事低级形状表示，例如三角形网格。 ***因此，在过去的十年中，计算机图形方面的努力集中在促进创建3D模型的任务上。该方向的最新趋势是将形状表示为在更语义层面上定义的原始物的集合，例如形状零件（例如腿部，椅子的座椅和背面）。这些表示允许在更抽象的层面上操纵形状，而与基本的低级表示。高级表示形式还可以通过捕获形状的结构和外观的其他方面来综合新模型或指导形状的建模或探索形状空间。成功使用此类表示形式需要三个组成部分：1）适合目标应用的形状表示； 2）自动或半自动构建现有几何数据的表示形式的算法； 3）指导用户可以使用表示内容来创建内容的机制。因此，这三个组件包括该程序的研究流。 ***在第一个流中，我们将研究更适合操纵和合成的形状表示的设计。在第二个流中，我们的目标是研究大数据分析如何导致形状分析的重大进步，并促进自动构造高级表示。在第三次流中，我们将研究可以支持创意建模的指导机制的开发。从长远来看，我们希望该计划可以促进内容的创建，从而引起设计和娱乐业的关注。