Automated Layout Synthesis and Visualization From Images of Interior or Exterior Spaces

Tomer Weiss, Masaki Nakada, Demetri Terzopoulos; Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops, 2017, pp. 41-47

Recent work in virtual worlds has explored the synthesis of indoor spaces, with furniture, accessories, and other layout items. In this work, we bridge the gap between the real and virtual worlds---given an input image of an interior or exterior space, and a general user specification of the desired furnishings and layout constraints, our method furnishes the scene with a realistic arrangement and displays it to the user by augmenting the original image. It can deal with varying layouts and target arrangements at interactive rates, which affords the user a sense of collaboration with the design program, enabling the rapid visual assessment of various layout designs, a process which would typically be time consuming if done manually. Our method is suitable for phones and other mobile devices that have a camera.