Related Experiment Video
Updated: Jun 13, 2026

Visualization of Thalamocortical Axon Branching and Synapse Formation in Organotypic Cocultures
Published on: March 28, 2018
Vision-Based Topology-Consistent Structural Parsing of Hand-Drawn Circuit Diagrams
Haoyu Wang1, Yuhan Wu1, Xiaoming Liu1,2
1School of Electronic Engineering, Nanjing Forestry University, No. 159 Longpan Road, Nanjing 210037, China.
None:
Hand-drawn circuit diagrams remain common in education, maintenance, and early-stage design and are often photographed for storage, sharing, and reuse. Recovering electrically meaningful structure from such camera-acquired images is difficult because irregular strokes, wire discontinuities, crossings, symbol-text interference, and imaging artifacts can disrupt valid circuit topology. We therefore formulate the task as topology recovery with semantic completion rather than symbol recognition alone. To solve it, we propose a topology-consistent structural parsing framework that integrates multi-source visual perception, wire connected-component-guided connectivity reasoning, and explicit endpoint semantic recovery for direction-sensitive and multi-terminal components. On an independent benchmark of 1317 hand-drawn circuit diagrams, the proposed method achieves a 95.14% strict image-level end-to-end success rate. The recovered structures are further exported as Simulation Program with Integrated Circuit Emphasis (SPICE)-compatible netlists for downstream simulation and verification. These results support a practical vision-based image acquisition and processing workflow for converting camera-acquired hand-drawn circuit images into machine-readable and simulation-ready circuit representations.
Related Concept Videos
Elements of Block Diagrams
A block diagram typically includes essential elements such as comparators, blocks, and feedback loops. Each of these elements...
Block Diagram Reduction
The first step in this process is the identification and relocation of a branch point. A branch point, where a...
Circuit Terminology
A circuit, on the other hand, is also an interconnected system of electrical elements but must contain one or more closed paths.
pV-Diagrams
Relation between Mathematical Equations and Block Diagrams
Bewley Lattice Diagram
