The Bayesian Draughtsman : a model for visuomotor coordination in drawing

In this article we present a model of realistic drawing accounting for visuomotor coordination, namely the strategies adopted to coordinate the processes of eye and hand movement generation, during the drawing task. Starting from some background assumptions suggested by eye-tracking human subjects, we formulate a Bayesian model of drawing activity. The resulting graphical model is shaped in the form of a Dynamic Bayesian Network that combines features of both the Input–Output Hidden Markov Model and the Coupled Hidden Markov Model, and provides an interesting insight on mechanisms for dynamic integration of visual and proprioceptive information.