With the advent of the Tablet PC and stylus-based PDAs, sketching-based user interfaces for design tools have become popular. However, a major challenge with such interfaces is the need for appropriate “beautification” of the sketches. This includes both interactive beautification as content is sketched and post-design conversion of sketches to formalised, computer-drawn diagrams. We discuss a ...

The beautification of a user interface resulting from model-to-model and model-to-code transformations in Model-Driven Architecture consists of performing manual changes to address user requirements which have not been supported during the transformations. These requirements may include customization, users’ preferences, and compliance with corporate style guidelines. This paper introduces a be...

Recently a new metaphor for diagramming, the intelligent diagram has emerged. This new metaphor provides an excellent basis for diagram beautification since it automatically collects geometric constraints which capture the semantics of a diagram during diagram construction. By applying visual-language-specific layout rules which impose additional desired constraints on the diagram component pla...

Auto photo beautification algorithms play important roles of promoting the quality of photograph because of the popularity of digital image production such as digital camera and printer. In this thesis, we develop a pipeline which combines automatic human face beautification and automatic color enhancement. The goal of this thesis is to beautify human faces and enhance the detail and color of t...

Facial appearance plays an important role in our social lives. Subjective perception of women's beauty depends on various face-related (e.g., skin, shape, hair) and environmental makeup, lighting, angle) factors. Similarly to cosmetic surgery the physical world, virtual face beautification is emerging field with many open issues be addressed. Inspired by latest advances style-based synthesis pr...

Graph layout algorithms are used to compute aesthetic and useful visualizations of graphs. In general, for graphs with up to a few hundred nodes, force-directed layout algorithms produce good layouts. Unfortunately, for larger graphs, they often get stuck at local minima and have high computational complexity. In this paper, we introduce a novel message passing technique for graph layout. The k...

In this paper, we propose an automatic skin beautification framework based on color-temperature-insensitive skin-color detection. To polish selected skin region, we apply bilateral filter to smooth the facial flaw. Last, we use Poisson image cloning to integrate the beautified parts into the original input. Experimental results show that the proposed method can be applied in varied light source...

Boundary representation models reconstructed from 3D range data suffer from various inaccuracies caused by noise in the data and by numerical errors in the model building software. The quality of such models can be improved in a beautification step, where geometric regularities need to be detected and imposed on the model, and defects requiring topological change need to be corrected. This pape...