An interactive system for efficient 3D furniture arrangement

We present an interactive example-based system for non-expert users to generate 3D indoor scenes intuitively. From a set of examples of an interior scene, we extract furniture layout constraints including pairwise and group relationships, ergonomic factors and user habits. Instead of inserting a single furniture object to a visual pleasing and functional position independently, we take advantages of manipulating a group of functionality-related furniture objects for smart editing. To deal with the arrangement problem which requires jointly optimizing a variety of functional and visual criteria, we introduce an efficient two-step pipeline consisting of rough arrangement and layout refinement. In the rough arrangement step, furniture objects are roughly placed according to pairwise relationships for accelerating the further optimization process. In the layout refinement step, we optimize the rough furniture layout to a semantical and functional layout considering spatial relationships, and ergonomic factors and avoiding collisions. User interactions are also allowed to move a specific object or a structural group while our system automatically refines the entire layout. The experimental results demonstrate that our system for scene generation measurably increases the visual quality and time efficiency compared with the completely manual scene editing or modeling.