Why Do Line Drawings Work? A Realism Hypothesis
By Aaron Hertzmann. 2020
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Why is it that we can recognize object identity and 3D shape from line drawings, even though they do not exist in the natural world? This article hypothesizes that the human visual system perceives line drawings as if they were approximately realistic images. Moreover, the techniques of line drawing are chosen to accurately convey shape to a human observer. Several implications and variants of this hypothesis are explored.
Subfields: Building and Construction, Geology, Mechanical Engineering
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Citations in the corpus
- Doodle It Yourself: Class Incremental Learning by Drawing a Few Sketches (2022, background): “…retrieval [6], semi-supervised retrieval [2], style-agnostic retrieval [46], etc. Sketch for Vision Tasks: Hand-drawn sketches, by nature, are enriched with various human visual system-like understanding abilities and are quite close to the cognitive-subconscious of human intelligence [19].”
- SketchEmbedNet: Learning Novel Concepts by Imitating Drawings (2020, background): “Work by (Hertzmann, 2020) demonstrated that line drawings are an informative depiction of shape and are intuitive to human perception.”