Neural Scene Decoration from a Single Photograph

Furnishing and rendering an indoor scene is a common but tedious task for interior design: an artist needs to observe the space, create a conceptual design, build a 3D model, and perform rendering. In this paper, we introduce a new problem of domain-specific image synthesis using generative modeling, namely neural scene decoration. Given a photograph of an empty indoor space, we aim to synthesize a new image of the same space that is fully furnished and decorated. Neural scene decoration can be applied in practice to efficiently generate conceptual but realistic interior designs, bypassing the traditional multi-step and time-consuming pipeline. Our attempt to neural scene decoration in this paper is a generative adversarial neural network that takes the input photograph and directly produce the image of the desired furnishing and decorations. Our network contains a novel image generator that transforms an initial point-based object layout into a realistic photograph. We demonstrate the performance of our proposed method by showing that it outperforms the baselines built upon previous works on image translations both qualitatively and quantitatively. Our user study further validates the plausibility and aesthetics in the generated designs.