Sketching is one of the simplest ways to visualize ideas. Its key advantage is its easy availability and accessibility, as it require the user to have neither deep knowledge of a particular drawing program nor any advanced drawing skills. In practice, however, all these skills become necessary to improve the visual fidelity of the resulting drawing. In this paper, we present ShipShape—a general...

Boundary representation models reconstructed from 3D range data suffer from various inaccuracies caused by noise in the data and the model building software. The quality of such models can be improved in a beautification step, which finds regular geometric patterns approximately present in the model and imposes a maximal consistent subset of constraints deduced from these patterns on the model....

The American public thinks of its highway network as a necessary convenience but rarely gives much thought to roadside environment. Yet, driving for pleasure is one of America’s most popular outdoor recreational activities. This area, however, has recently been brought into sharper focus. President Johnson, when recently discussing high­ way beautification said: “ By making our roads highways t...

Boundary representation models reconstructed from 3D range data suffer from various inaccuracies caused by noise in the data and the model building software. The quality of such models can be improved in a beautification step, which finds geometric regularities approximately present in the model and tries to impose a consistent subset of these regularities on the model. A framework for beautifi...

In this paper, a novel method for online handwritten Chinese character beautification is proposed. User-input trajectories captured from a mouse or a preasuresenselesss touchscreen are first simulated into paint-brush style using a speed-based calligraphic simulation algorithm. Then a template-based beautification method is applied to transfigure the overall architecture of the userwritten char...

Posting attractive facial photos is part of everyday life in the social media era. Motivated by demand, we propose a lightweight method to automatically and efficiently beautify shapes both portrait non-portrait faces photos, while allowing users customize beautification individual features. Previous methods focus on mostly frontal neutral faces, without incorporating user controllability proce...

Closed approach transcutaneous Serdev Suture lifts encompass the principale concept of stable suturing and fixation of mobile fascias to immobile periosteum, tendons and fascias, resulting in suture suspension and/or volume augmentation and/or repositioning. 21 techniques and individual modifications are used on face and in body areas, even where open surgical techniques cannot be directly appl...

Issues around research ethics and the reproducibility of research are impacting the credibility of science. Firstly, we look at what is to be understand by research ethics, misconduct, and reproducibility. Next, we examine some examples of fraud, beautification, and failed reproducibility. Next, we address the causes and possible resolutions, culminating in the question whether the scholarly li...