Darknet Markets are a hotbed of illicit trade and are difficult for law enforcement to monitor and analyze. Topic Modeling has been a popular method to semantically analyze market listings, but lacks the ability to infer the information-rich visual …
The emergence of consumer-grade 3D printing has democratized innovation through online design-sharing platforms like Thingiverse. We introduce a novel multimodal dataset called “ThingiPano”, a large-scale collection containing multi-view 2D panoramic …
Newcomers to digital fabrication often fail during initial attempts without mentor guidance, causing many to abandon these technologies completely due to a lack of self-efficacy and social support. In order for digital fabrication technologies to be accessible within diverse populations, including those in rural locations with access to fabrication machines but not experienced proximal mentors, proximal mentor roles may be partially emulated through interactions with online social resources. Existing online resources provide the information needed for individuals to learn many practices, but finding and utilizing online 3D printing resources is not always trivial.
This paper introduces a novel system that allows users to generate customized cartoon avatars through a sketching interface. The rise of social media and personalized gaming has given a need for personalized virtual appearances. Avatars, self-curated …