Semantic Feature Extraction for Interior Environment Understanding and Retrieval

In this paper, we propose a novel system of semantic feature extraction and retrieval for interior design and decoration application. The system, V sup 2 ID (Virtual Visual Interior Design), uses colored texture and spatial edge layout to obtain simple information about global room environment. We address the domain specific segmentation problem in our application and present techniques for obtaining semantic features from a room environment. We also discuss heuristics for making use of these features (color, texture, edge layout and shape) to retrive objects from an existing database. The final resynthesized room environment with original scene and objects from database is created for the purpose of animation and virtual walk-through.