Interactive Furniture Layout Using Interior Design Guidelines.pdf

Interactive Furniture Layout Using Interior Design Guidelines Paul Merrell Eric Schkufza Zeyang Li Maneesh Agrawala Vladlen Koltun Stanford University University of California, Berkeley Figure 1: Interactive furniture layout. For a given layout (left), our system suggests new layouts (middle) that respect the user’s constraints and follow interior design guidelines. The red chair has been fixed in place by the user. One of the suggestions is shown on the right. Abstract ample, the furniture should support comfortable conversation, align with prominent features of the space, and collectively form a vi- We present an interactive furniture layout system that assists users sually balanced composition. In practice these guidelines are of- by suggesting furniture arrangements that are based on interior de- ten imprecise and sometimes contradictory. Experienced designers sign guidelines. Our system incorporates the layout guidelines as learn to balance the tradeoffs between the guidelines through an terms in a density function and generates layout suggestions by iterative trial-and-error process. rapidly sampling the density function using a hardware-accelerated Monte Carlo sampler. Our results demonstrate that the suggestion Yet most people responsible for furnishing a new home have no generation functionality measurably increases the quality of furni- training in interior design. They may not be aware of interior de- ture arrangements produced by participants with no prior training sign guidelines and they are unlikely to have the tacit knowledge