PICASSO: A Feed-Forward Framework for Parametric Inference of CAD Sketches via Rendering Self-Supervision

This work introduces PICASSO, a framework for the parameterization of 2D CAD sketches from hand-drawn and precise sketch images. PICASSO converts a given CAD sketch image into parametric primitives that can be seamlessly integrated into CAD software. Our framework leverages rendering self-supervision to enable the pre-training of a CAD sketch parameterization network using sketch renderings only, thereby eliminating the need for corresponding CAD parameterization. Thus, we significantly reduce reliance on parameter-level annotations, which are often unavailable, particularly for hand-drawn sketches. The two primary components of PICASSO are (1) a Sketch Parameterization Network (SPN) that predicts a series of parametric primitives from CAD sketch images, and (2) a Sketch Rendering Network (SRN) that renders parametric CAD sketches in a differentiable manner and facilitates the computation of a rendering (image-level) loss for self-supervision. We demonstrate that the proposed PICASSO can achieve reasonable performance even when finetuned with only a small number of parametric CAD sketches. Extensive evaluation on the widely used SketchGraphs [37] and CAD as Language [14] datasets validates the effectiveness of the proposed approach on zero- and few-shot learning scenarios.