Digital Twins (DTs) are forecasted to sustain the two-thirds of large industrial companies by 2022. In the Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) sector, their actual application is still largely at the prototype stage. Industry and academia are curr...

3D avatar creation plays a crucial role in the digital age. However, the whole production process is prohibitively time-consuming and labor-intensive. To democratize this technology to a larger audience, we propose AvatarCLIP, a zero-shot text-driven framework...

The incredible feats of athleticism demonstrated by humans are made possible in part by a vast repertoire of general-purpose motor skills, acquired through years of practice and experience. These skills not only enable humans to perform complex tasks, but also...

Abstraction is at the heart of sketching due to the simple and minimal nature of line drawings. Abstraction entails identifying the essential visual properties of an object or scene, which requires semantic understanding and prior knowledge of high-level conce...

This paper aims to improve automation in brick segmentation and crack detection of masonry walls through image-based techniques and machine learning. Initially, a large dataset of hand-labelled images of different in colour, texture, and size of brickwork maso...