Equipping Sketch Patches with Context-Aware Positional Encoding for Graphic Sketch Representation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2403.17525v1
• Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2024 09:26:12 GMT
• Title: Equipping Sketch Patches with Context-Aware Positional Encoding for Graphic Sketch Representation
• Authors: Sicong Zang, Zhijun Fang,
• Abstract summary: We propose a variant-drawing-protected method for learning graphic sketch representation. Instead of injecting sketch drawings into graph edges, we embed these sequential information into graph nodes only. Experimental results indicate that our method significantly improves sketch healing and controllable sketch synthesis.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: The drawing order of a sketch records how it is created stroke-by-stroke by a human being. For graphic sketch representation learning, recent studies have injected sketch drawing orders into graph edge construction by linking each patch to another in accordance to a temporal-based nearest neighboring strategy. However, such constructed graph edges may be unreliable, since a sketch could have variants of drawings. In this paper, we propose a variant-drawing-protected method by equipping sketch patches with context-aware positional encoding (PE) to make better use of drawing orders for learning graphic sketch representation. Instead of injecting sketch drawings into graph edges, we embed these sequential information into graph nodes only. More specifically, each patch embedding is equipped with a sinusoidal absolute PE to highlight the sequential position in the drawing order. And its neighboring patches, ranked by the values of self-attention scores between patch embeddings, are equipped with learnable relative PEs to restore the contextual positions within a neighborhood. During message aggregation via graph convolutional networks, a node receives both semantic contents from patch embeddings and contextual patterns from PEs by its neighbors, arriving at drawing-order-enhanced sketch representations. Experimental results indicate that our method significantly improves sketch healing and controllable sketch synthesis.

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